The journal of a naturalist / [Anon].

  • John Leonard Knapp
Date:
1829
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The journal of a naturalist / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not to be sought for in distant places, or of dif- ficult attainment, but to be found almost at the very doors of the cottages; and old men, women, and children, can obtain a comfortable main- tenance by it without any great exertion of strength, or protraction of labour. The rough material costs nothing: a short pickaxe to de- tach the stone, and a hammer to break it, are all the tools required. A man or healthy woman can easily supply about a tun in the day; a child that goes on steadily, about one third of this quantity; and as we give one shilling for a tun, a man, his wife, and two tolerable-sized children, can obtain from 2s. and 8d. to 3s. per day by this employ the greater part of the winter; and should the weather be bad, they can work at intervals, and various broken hours, and obtain something; and there is a constant demand for the article. The winter accumulation is carted away as the frost occurs, or the spring repair comes on. Our labourers, their children and cottages, I think, present a testimony of their well doing, by the orderly, decent conduct of the former, and the comforts of the latter. I may perhaps be pardoned in relating here the good conduct of a villager, deserving more approbation than my simple record will bestow;
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