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Rh —Production of Pig Iron (in thousands of long tons).

—Production of Pig Iron in the United States (in thousands of long tons).

—Production of Wrought Iron, also that of Bloomary Iron (in thousands of long tons). 1 Hammered products are excluded.

—Production of Steel (in thousands of long tons).

1 Ingots only. &emsp;&emsp; 2 Bessemer and open hearth only. &emsp;&emsp; 3 Castings.

—Tonnage (gross register) of Iron and Steel Vessels built under Survey of Lloyd’s Registry (in thousands of tons).

—Production of Iron Ore (in thousands of long tons).

1 Calculated from the production of pig iron. 2 Approximately.

IRON MASK (masque de fer). The identity of the “man in the iron mask” is a famous historical mystery. The person so called was a political prisoner under Louis XIV., who died in the Bastille in 1703. To the mask itself no real importance attaches, though that feature of the story gave it a romantic interest; there is no historical evidence that the mask he was said always to wear was made of anything but black velvet (velours), and it was only afterwards that legend converted its material into iron. As regards the “man,” we have the contemporary official journals of Étienne du Junca (d. 1706), the