 ... and working of iron was well understood, and constantly practised, over all the Highlands and Islands from time immemorial. Instead of improving in that art, we have fallen off exceedingly of late years, and at present make little or none. Tradition...  Transactions of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts - Page 294by Royal Scottish Society of Arts - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Donald MacNicol - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1779 - 392 pages
...of late years, and at prefent make little or none. Tradition bears, that they made it in the blomary way ; that is, by laying it under the hammers, in order to make it malleable with the fame heat that melted it in the furnace. There is ftill in the Highlands a clan of the name of Mac... | |
 | John Henry Dixon - History - 1886 - 512 pages
...ever know much of their history. According to the Rev. Donald M'Nicol they made iron '" in the blomary way, that is by laying it under the hammers in order...with the same heat that melted it in the furnace." In the present day the processes of smelting iron and of producing malleable iron are separate and... | |
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