He afterwards established iron works in France, and Arthur Young says, that "until that well-known English manufacturer arrived, the French knew nothing of the art of casting cannon solid and then boring them" (Travels in France, 4to.ed.

London, 1792, p.90).

Yet England had borrowed her first cannon-maker from France in the person of Peter Baude, as described in chap.

iii.
Wilkinson is also said to have invented a kind of hot-blast, in respect of which various witnesses gave evidence on the trial of Neilson's patent in 1839; but the invention does not appear to have been perfected by him.
[10] Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed.

Art.
[11] PLYMLEY, General View of the Agriculture of Shropshire.