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ton Ogle, at Kirkley. The feat of Sir John Lambert Middleton, Bart, at 

 Belfay, feems to have been built with it. 



By North Gosforth, near Netvcaftk) and at Acomb, *iear Bywell } 

 is a whitilh-brown free-done, with glittering micse, commended 

 for ornamental Hone-works $ the Acomb-ft.one. of the brightefl 

 colour, and clofeft grit, with which the handfome feat of William 

 Femvick, Efqj of Byivell, is built. With the other, the fine feat 

 of Charles Brandling, Efq; of South Gosforth, is built, both defigned 

 by Paine ; as was Belford-Hall. 



By the fea, near 1 Seaton Detaval, fo Called from the town or villa 

 by the fea, and the local name of its antient baronial pofTeflbrs; 

 the Delavals, is a free-flone accounted excellent both for colour 

 and duration, of a whitifh-brown, with fplendid micaceous par- 

 ticles. That grand ftructure, the feat of Sir Francis Blake Delaval, 

 Knight of the Bath, of Seaton Delaval, was built with It ; defigned 

 by Sir John Vanbrough* 



On the north fide of a fmall flream, called Spital-burn, from 

 its courfe by an antient hofpital or elemofmary, near Nenvbiggen 

 by the fea, is a free-ftone of a dull whitifh-brown colour, of a 

 coarfe grit, with filvery mics j of great mechanical ufe, both 

 for building gfind-ftones, and fire-ftones for the glafs-houfes ; 

 the ftratum, in parts, now Worked, about eight feet, the roof 

 at the higheft about ten feet, chiefly a red clay ; near the eaflern 

 point very little roof, the ftratum twelve feet. There is a flratum 

 of the fame ftone on the fouth fide of the burn, fix feet thick j 

 the roof about as much. 



By a flreamlet called the ben-Buni, on the eafl fide, near AJ1)- 

 ington, is a free-ftone of the fame grit and colour, worked for the 

 fame ufes ; the ftratum of a great thicknefs ; the roof about 



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