For bars of still greater dimensions Mr. Horton adopted the following process, for which he took out a patent a few years back. Instead of rolling the single blooms, and then welding the bars together, to get bars of the sizes required, he takes the blooms ("billets," he calls them,) from the puddling furnace, welds several of them together under the great hammer, then submits the united mass to the operation of the rolls. Great bars, thus prepared are said to possess a more laminated and fibrous texture longitudinally, than those which are united by welding together ready formed barn.