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crcafe, and at what periods, with many 

 other circumftances. — I could infert, in 

 the common hackneyed ftyle, That New- 

 caftle is a place of very conjideralbe trade, 

 her 7}ier chants pojfejjing a very exterifive cor- 

 refpondencCi exporting thist that, and the 

 ether, and importing fuch andfuch commo" 

 dities, &c. &c. Thefe are the general ac- 

 counts we meet with in books of geogra- 

 phy, copied from one to another, till a 

 man of any reading is difgufted with the 

 impertinence. I may be trifling and ab-- 

 furd, but I will never give you fuch pages 

 cf inanity as thefe. 



The people employed in the coal-mines 

 are prodigioufly numerous, amounting to 

 many thoufands ; the earnings of the mea 

 are from ix. to 4^". a day, and their firing. 

 The coal waggon roads, from the pits to 

 the water, are great works, carried over 

 all forts of inequalities of ground, fo far as 

 the diftance of 9 or lo miles. The track 

 of the wheels are marked with pieces of 

 timber let into the road, for the wheels of 

 the waggons to run TDn, by which means 

 one horfe is enabled to draw, and that with 

 eafe, 50 or 60 bufhels of coals. There 

 are many o<:her branches of bufinefs that 



have 



