To an observant eye, the working movement of the Flint Glass-blower are performed with ease and elegance, perfectly natural. In modern Glass-houses, which convey the smoke instantly upward, without its descending into the houses to affect blowers' lungs, the employment is by no means injurious to health. In the exercise of walking, swinging, and shaping, and in almost all the manipulations of the factory, every limb and muscle is brought into healthful movement; and it is found that ever the exertion of the lungs in blowing is by no means unfavourable to longevity. Much improvement has, within the last few years, taken place in the temperance and morals of the workmen. Rheumatism and gout, which formerly prevailed among the men in Glass-works, are not, at present, more frequent than the average experience of what may be considered the most healthful manufacturing employments in large towns.

In making new shapes in Glass, much is left to the judgement of the workman, who reasons and reflects on the best mode of arriving at certain results, by avoiding tool-marks, in forming, re-shaping, &c., by which time will be saved, and the product less disfigured. Many visitors have been struck by the beauty of outline so frequently developed in blowing the forming Glass vessels in their onward progress; which, although it cannot be arrested in its rapid transition from one form to another, often suggests new ideas or the invention of new designs. Occasionally, in flashing, or in modifications of the flashing process, the changes of form seem almost miraculous, and rather to be