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INDUSTRIES AND MANUFACTURES 79 15. Industries and Manufactures. Cornwall is too far from the coalfields to be a manu- facturing county on a large scale. There are, however, some few industries and manufactures carried on in Cornwall. The wonderful wireless telegraphy installation which Mr Marconi has established at Poldhu does not, Poldhu Hotel and the Marconi Station perhaps, strictly speaking, come under this head, but it would be impossible to omit mention of it and of the great services it daily renders to vessels crossing the Atlantic. A considerable industry is in the making of casks, mainly for the exportation of pilchards. Woollen manu-