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A Colonial Industry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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In these days of complex industrial organization it is hard to realize that the time ever existed when a complete manufacturing process, together with specifications for equipment, might be described in two pages. The following account of the process for making potash is taken from the letter book of Henry Lloyd for the years 1765–1767:

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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1933

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