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running from the Railway to Limer Gate, a length of some 

 ly^ miles, and at once commenced to open up the 

 quarries. 



Up to that time, the very small quantity of stone 

 which was used for the roads in the immediate vicinity, 

 consisted of the boulders taken from the slopes of the 

 hill and from a few places which were little better than 

 slight excavations, or burrow holes, here and there, upon 

 the hill. The land carriage to Ludlow was necessarily 

 expensive and, as a consequence, the stone had little 

 more (in the commercial world at least) than a local 

 reputation. 



Mr Roberts (who was associated with me in railway 

 construction in India), became our Manager, and thus, in 

 the course of some years, we developed the stone trade 

 of the Glee Hill. But Mr Roberts was ambitious, and 

 from our nursery ground he developed into a proprietor, 

 and opened up the collieries and works now constituting 

 the Glee Hill Granite Gompany's quarries. 



After a further period, my old and respected friend Mr 

 Mackay (who had also been engaged upon this Railway) 

 commenced the works at the Titterstone quarries, so that 

 we are now three Gompanies, striving in friendly rivalry to 

 develop to the utmost the stone trade of the Glee Hills. 

 Our quarries, named the Glee Hill Dhu Stone Quarries, 

 took the name from a word which I believe has for a very 

 long time been used to describe the stone, the word "Dhu" 

 being, I believe, the Geltic for " black," a not inappropriate 

 name for the dark blue stone. Geologically the formation 

 of the stone is shewn on the face of our quarries in 

 vertical columns of very regular formation, and of a 

 height of some 140 feet above our quarry bed, but we 

 know that they extend some hundreds of feet below that 

 surface; and although not as perfect as the columns to be 

 seen at the Giant's Gauseway, they are nevertheless 

 strongly marked, and I think of very considerable interest. 



