usually about eight ounces, the second four pounds, and the third sixteen pounds. Of course, each time less weight may be taken if required. Accidents to the men by burning seldom occur in a manufactory so as to incapacitate them for work; and when they happen, they are more the result of carelessness than otherwise. A stranger need never feel nervous on entering a Glasshouse in full work, although he might suppose that hot Glass swinging about would often lead to accidents. Visitors are much more likely to receive a blow or a burn by moving about to avoid the men, than if they stood still, and allowed the blowers to swing the glass in their usual way. A few years since, a man was severely scalded, and confined to his house about six weeks, through falling back, after pot setting, into a caldron filled with water, standing in the Glasshouse, into which the remaining contents of the pots had been emptied at the end of the week; this did not occur in the course of his duties, but by what is termed "larking." He was dreadfully scalded, but not burnt with the fused Glass. A pump being in the Glasshouse, cold water was abundantly poured upon the scalded parts, the man was carried home, and attended by a skilful medical man; and after several weeks of suffering, he recovered, and returned to his work.

The manipulations of Glass-making may be divided into four principal operations—viz., 1st, blowing and making by Hand; 2nd, in Moulds; 3rd, a more recent introduction from North America—viz., pressing in moulds by Machinery; and 4th, Tube-drawing. When these have been delineated, the Curiosities of the Ancient and Medæval Manufactures will follow.