Harland and Wolff are the true Watt and Boulton of Belfast.

At the beginning of their great enterprise, their works occupied about four acres of land; they now occupy over thirty-six acres.

The firm has imported not less than two hundred thousand tons of iron; which have been converted by skill and labour into 168 ships of 253,000 total tonnage.

These ships, if laid close together, would measure nearly eight miles in length.
The advantage to the wage-earning class can only be shortly stated.
Not less than 34 per cent.

is paid in labour on the cost of the ships turned out.