of machinery suspended beneath it by means of levers and chains.
On the right of the entrance gate is the porter's lodge, with entrances
from it to the offices, as represented in the plan on the adjoining page
Beyond the entrance, and just within the inclosure may be seen a great
crane used for receiving or delivering the vast masses of metal, the
shafts, the cylinders, the boilers, the vacuum pans, and other ponderous
formations which are continually coming and going to and from the yard.
Beyond the crane is seen the bell by which the hours of work are
regulated.

[Illustration: ENTRANCE TO THE NOVELTY WORKS.]

The plan upon the adjoining page will give the reader some idea of the
extent of the accommodations required for the manufacture of such heavy
and massive machinery. On the right of the entrance may be seen the
porter's lodge, shown in perspective in the view below. Beyond it, in
the yard, stands the crane, which is seen likewise in the view. Turning
to the left, just beyond the crane, the visitor enters the iron foundry,
a spacious inclosure, with ovens and furnaces along the sides, and
enormous cranes swinging in various directions in the centre. These
cranes are for hoisting the heavy castings out of the pits in which they
are formed. The parts marked v v v, are ovens for drying the moulds.

[Illustration]

Turning to the right from the foundry, and passing down through the
yard, the visitor finds himself in the midst of a complicated maze of
buildings, which extend in long ranges toward the water, with lanes and
passages between them like the streets of a town. In these passages
companies of workmen are seen, some going to and fro, drawing heavy
masses of machinery upon iron trucks; others employed in hoisting some
ponderous cylinder or shaft by a crane, or stacking pigs of iron in
great heaps, to be ready for the furnaces which are roaring near as if
eager to devour them. And all the time there issues from the open doors
of the great boiler-shops and forging-shops below, an incessant clangor,
produced by the blows of the sledges upon the rivets of the boilers, or
of the trip-hammers at the forges.

The relative positions of the various shops where the different
operations are performed will be seen by examination of the plan. The
motive power by which all the machinery of the establishment is driven,
is furnished by a stationary engine in the very centre of the works,
represented in the plan. It stand