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Industrial Biography

CHAPTER I
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YARRANTON, England's Improvement by Sea and Land.

London, 1677.
[15] M.A.LOWER, Contributions to Literature, Historical, Antiquarian, and Metrical.

London, 1854, pp.

88-9.
[16] This famous sword was afterwards sent by Richard I.as a present to Tancred; and the value attached to the weapon may be estimated by the fact that the Crusader sent the English monarch, in return for it, "four great ships and fifteen galleys." [17] Weland was the Saxon Vulcan.

The name of Weland's or Wayland's Smithy is still given to a monument on Lambourn Downs in Wiltshire.
The place is also known as Wayland Smith's Cave.


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