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jow, as was mentioned, converted into a soap-work.
| fee number of brewers who still carry on all the
lecessary operations themselves, and likewise sup-
ply some taverns and vintners who do not brew,
may be about thirty.
For many years back rope-making has been car-
ked on in Dundee. Two former companies have
^been long dissolved, and the rope-walk of one of
the companies, in Blackscroft, is now converted to
other purposes. The business is at present greatly
extended by new companies ; and from the great
demand for cordage of all kinds, for the numerous
vessels belonging to the port, and for ropes for all
the various uses in the country, it has the prospect
of being a very profitable concern.
From the situation of the harbour, and from the
records that remain of the shipping, it is evident
that ship-building must have been practised in the
place for centuries back. Some years ago the num-
ber of yards for that purpose was greater than just
now ; but at present there are three extensive yards
for ship-building, very properly conducted. From
the slips of each many and beautiful vessels have
been launched into the waters. One of the yards,
with its graving-dock, comes within the plan of the
new harbour, and must necessarily be given up.
The want of this will be compensated^, for by the
three slips allotted for ship building on the east
side of the wet-dock; and the graving-dock belong-
ing to the new harbour is the best in Scotland, and
capable of containing three of the largest vessels
which may frequent the port of Dundee.
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