. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. the front of the manufactory. In the foreground is thecanal—the canal carried out by the enterprising spirit ofWedgwood, and formed by the indomitable skill of Brindley—which passes close to the works; where there is, as willbe seen, excellent wharfage; it has branches opening directlyinto the manufactory itself, so that boats may be laden anddischarged with the greatest ease. To the left of the vie
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. the front of the manufactory. In the foreground is thecanal—the canal carried out by the enterprising spirit ofWedgwood, and formed by the indomitable skill of Brindley—which passes close to the works; where there is, as willbe seen, excellent wharfage; it has branches opening directlyinto the manufactory itself, so that boats may be laden anddischarged with the greatest ease. To the left of the viewwill be seen the hovels and kilns ; and in the centre—the large pedimented building with the bell-turret—are theshow-rooms, the offices, the museum, &c.; and at the THE WORKS AT ETRURIA. 393 extreme end of the view, to the right, will be seen the lodge,&c. These works, it may be remembered, were planned andbuilt by the great Josiah, and possess, therefore, an unusualcfcoree of interest. The next illustration shows a part of the interior of one of. L the yards, which I have selected as much from its historicalinterest as from its picturesque character. It is one of the useful works where so much of the Queens ware andother of the staple manufactures of the place has been made; 394 THE WEDGWOODS. but it is most especially interesting as showing the stonesteps—those to the left hand—by which Josiah Wedgwoodconstantly ascended to his counting-house, and the bridgeby which he crossed the yard from his office to the ware-rooms and works. The whole of this part of the works has an air of vene-rable age about it, and the very atmosphere seems to breatheof the presence, as it were, of the master mind of its firstand greatest owner. But not only in this part of the same remark will apply to nearly every portion of theplace, and perhaps more especially so to the engine and
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