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[21] The importation of coal in 1883 amounted to over 700,000
tons.
[22] We are indebted to the obliging kindness of the Right Hon.
Mr. Fawcett, Postmaster-General for this return. The total
number of depositors in the Post Office Savings banks in the
Parliamentary borough of Belfast is 10,827 and the amount of
their deposits, including the interest standing to their credit,
on the 31st December, 1882, was 158,064L. 0s. 1d.
An important item in the savings of Belfast, not included in the
above returns, consists in the amounts of deposits made with the
various Limited Companies, as well as with the thriving Building
Societies in the town and neighbourhood.
CHAPTER XI.
SHIPBUILDING IN BELFAST--ITS ORIGIN AND PROGRESS.
BY SIR E. J. HARLAND, ENGINEER AND SHIPBUILDER.
"The useful arts are but reproductions or new combinations by the
art of man, of the same natural benefactors. He no longer waits
for favouring gales, but by means of steam he realises the fable
of AEolus's bag, and carries the two-and-thirty winds in the
boiler of his boat."--Emerson.
"The most exquisite and the most expensive machinery is brought
into play where operations on the most common materials are to be
performed, because these are executed on the widest scale. This
is the meaning of the vast and astonishing prevalence of machine
work in this country: that the machine, with its million fingers,
works for millions of purchasers, while in remote countries,
where magnificence and savagery stand side by side, tens of
thousands work for one.
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