London . [Last liilia Import Dock.] by the railway. They were at one time under the management of a certainnumber of the East India Directors; but, since the opening of the trade to India, 78 LONDON. these clocks have been purchased by the West India Dock Company. Theimjiort dock has an area of nineteen acres, the export dock of ten acres, and thebasin three ; and as they were constructed for vessels of the largest size, they. [ India Export Dock.^ have never loss than twenty-three feet of water in depth. The warehouses forEast India produce were chiefly in the City, and those at the dock
London . [Last liilia Import Dock.] by the railway. They were at one time under the management of a certainnumber of the East India Directors; but, since the opening of the trade to India, 78 LONDON. these clocks have been purchased by the West India Dock Company. Theimjiort dock has an area of nineteen acres, the export dock of ten acres, and thebasin three ; and as they were constructed for vessels of the largest size, they. [ India Export Dock.^ have never loss than twenty-three feet of water in depth. The warehouses forEast India produce were chiefly in the City, and those at the docks will notcontain more than 15,000 tons. Neither the East nor West India Docks were open to strangers without per-mission being first obtained, but at all the other docks the gates arc freely openduring the hours of business. The system of exclusion was at one period sorigid, that the crews were discharged on the ship entering the dock. They arenow allowed to remain on board, subject, of course, to strict regulations rcsjiect-ing the use of fires. The number of persons employed in each of the docks isvery great, and a large proportion of the labourers are taken -on only by theday. The other classes employed comprise revenue officers, for whom smalloffices arc fitted iip, clerks, warehousemen, engineers, coopers, and variousothers. The number of persons employed on an average at the four docksalready described is, perha
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