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and that the work had been very thoroughly done. In the Rolling Mill and shops connected with it everything that could be burned had been burned, while the machinery was broken and twisted by the combined action of fire and the efforts of the force sent for its destruction, and the whole appeared simply as one grand mass of ruins — the chimneys alone remaining intact. The furnaces were less injured as they were principally brick work but the machinery connected with them was in the same state as at the Rolling Mill. There was near the furnace a large mass of ore variously estimated, at from four thousand to eight thousand tons, which had been mined and prepared for roasting, and there was a charcoal pit ready for burning. The buildings for the residence of the employees connected with the works were generally standing, (though a number