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In England, as in other countries, charcoal was the only fuel at first used; and after bloomeries had been in vogue for centuries, the blast furnace was introduced from the shores of the Rhine.

From The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

The heaps of cinders which are discovered on the hills of Monmouthshire are the production either of bloomeries, the most ancient mode of fusing iron, or of furnaces of a very antique construction. 

From The Wye and Its Associations a picturesque ramble by Ritchie, Leitch

Because the old fashioned bloomeries and Catalan forges could produce blooms only at a high cost, and because the new processes introduced failed to turn out good blooms.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

That they ran altogether upon bloomeries in New England and Pennsylvania till his example had made them attempt greater works.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Lodge, Henry Cabot

Then there were bloomeries and ironworks, wharves for landing goods, called "bridges," warehouses, windmills, watermills, sawmills, glassworks, silkhouses, brick and pottery kilns, lime kilns, saltworks, and blockhouses.

From Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century by Forman, Henry Chandlee