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Old and New London
… rate of wages than was demanded by English bricklayers and labourers. Some hundreds were, therefore, imported from … I believe, that first opened the channel for the export of labourers and hodmen to England, and which stream of …
Old and New London
… any moment the deluge might come; and the men worked, like labourers in a dangerous coal mine, in constant terror from … especially in summer, that sometimes the most stalwart labourers were carried out insensible, and all the workmen …