CHAPTER XXVIII.

Clouds of Blacks--What Sheffield was and is--A detestable Town-- Razors and Knives--Perfect Work, Imperfect Workmen--Foul Talk--How Files are made--Good Iron, Good Steel--Breaking-up and Melting-- Making the Crucibles--Casting--Ingots--File Forgers--Machinery Baffled--Cutting the Teeth--Hardening--Cleaning and Testing-- Elliott's Statue--A Ramble to the Corn-Law Rhymer's Haunt--Rivelin --Bilberry gatherers--Ribbledin--The Port's Words--A Desecration-- To Manchester--A few Words on the Exhibition 256