google "Lorn Furnace"
there is a lovely 2 min. youtube video of Bonawe Iron Furnace. It gives an idea of the size of the enterprise. But I doubt that when it was in action it would have been so peaceful and the musical birdsong heard quite so clearly. Some interesting information.
I don't know much about the iron industry, but there seems a link between Quakers and ironmaking.
I think I read somewhere that the move to Scotland was to have access to wood for making charcoal.
google "John Satterthwaite" Scotland
on googlebooks
Some account of the last journey of John Pemberton to the Highlands
Thomas Wilkinson 1810
"We passed on to Lorn Furness, and took up our lodgings at the house of John Satterthwaite, who, with his wife, were the only members of our society in the Highlands of Scotland. A meeting was appointed next day. John Satterthwaite took much pains in spreading information thereof through the neighbourhood, to a considerable distance.
In the morning many came several miles to meeting ; lakes and arms of the sea run up here among the mountains in various directions, which the people were seen crossing in boats from different quarters. A considerable number assembled, and behaved with remarkable solidity, without any appearance of lightness or of whispering ; and though it seemed scarcely reasonable to suppose any of them had been at meeting before, yet they sat as still and as orderly as if they had been trained up amongst us from their childhood."
Looking at the beginning of the book, the journey was in 1787.
