wn; while Mr. Wolff is the Chairman of one of
the latest born industries of the place, the Belfast Rope-work Company,
which already gives employment to over 600 persons.

This last-mentioned industry is only about six years old. The works
occupy over seven acres of ground, more than six acres of which are
under roofing. Although the whole of the raw material is imported from
abroad from Russia, the Philippine Islands, New Zealand, and Central
America--it is exported again in a manufactured state to all parts of
the world.

Such is the contagion of example, and such the ever-branching
industries with which men of enterprise and industry can enrich and
bless their country. The following brief memoir of the career of Mr.
Harland has been furnished at my solicitation; and I think that it will
be found full of interest as well as instruction.

Footnotes for Chapter X.

[1] Report in the Cork Examiner, 5th July, 1883.

[2] In 1883, as compared with 1882, there was a decrease of 58,022
acres in the land devoted to the growth of wheat; there was a total
decrease of 114,871 acres in the land under tillage.--Agricultural
Statistics, Ireland, 1883. Parliamentary Return, c. 3768.

[3] Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom, 1883.

[4] The particulars are these: deposits in Irish Post Office Savings
Banks, 31st December, 1882, 1,925,440; to the credit of depositors and
Government stock, 125,000L.; together, 2,050,440L.

The increase of deposits over those made in the preceding year, were:
in Dublin, 31,321L.; in Antrim, 23,328L.; in Tyrone, 21,315L.; in Cork,
17,034L.; and in Down, 10,382L.

[5] The only thriving manufacture now in Dublin is that of intoxicating
drinks--beer, porter, stout, and whisky. Brewing and distilling do not
require skilled labour, so that strikes do not affect them.

[6] Times, 11th June, 1883.

[7] The valuation of the county of Aberdeen (exclusive of the city) was
recently 866,816L., whereas the value of the herrings (748,726 barrels)
caught round the coast (at 25s. the barrel) was 935,907L., thereby
exceeding the estimated annual rental of the county by 69,091L. The
Scotch fishermen catch over a million barrels of herrings annually,
representing a value of about a million and a-half sterling.

[8] A recent number of Land and Water supplies the following
information as to the fishing at Kinsale:--"The takes of fish have been
so enormous and unprecedented that buyers can scarcely b