338 AtvITIQJJITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



length by the river, which for all that fpace forms a moft beau- 

 tiful ferpentine canal, a bank of oaks on the oppofite fide. On 

 the weft fide of a flreamlet, called the Den-Burn, by a grinddone- 

 quarry, the river Wansbeck makes a flexure, where is a beautiful 

 Hope, now in tillage, fhaded by fpreading oaks and other 

 timber on all fides but to the fouth, the river making another 

 flexure a little to the weft of it, croflcd by Shipivq/h-bridge, in 

 fight ; a boat in it for the ufe of a falmon-fifhery. Mr. Crow's 

 extent of ground by the river from within a fmall field's length 

 of the bridge, or the rcftory-glebe, weft, to the Stake-ford, eaft, 

 is about a mile and a half, meafured ; thus beautifully che- 

 quered with wood, rock, and river-fcenery ; a foot-walk by the 

 river the whole length. 



About a quarter of a mile eaft from the grindftone-quarry, 

 under a bank of oaks and other trees, clofe to a hedge, is a fa- 

 cred fountain, called St. Margaret's Well, pleafant and foft to the 

 tafte, many of the fmall frefli- water buccinas at the bottom ; the 

 north fide faced with ftone, natural, and femicircular, coated 

 with mofs, and a thin cruft of earth, in which the primrofe and 

 meado'wfwect have taken root, emitting trreir pleafant odours 

 round it in their feafon of flowering. 



By the Stake-ford, is a hamlet, called, the 



The Black Clofe, belonging to his Grace the Duke of Portland, 

 where is a coal-work, a fteith, and a fmall fire-engine, fo con- 

 trived as to fill a large bafon with falt-water from a fmall refer- 

 -voir below, overflowed by the tides, for the ufe of a falt-work, 

 and alfo to draw off water from the colliery. 



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