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believed to be the higlieft. inhabited ground in Scot- 

 land *, the people of which are employed in work- 

 ing a lead mine. 



Clithero, {Lan.E.) a town on the River Lone, 

 with a (hare of the cotton manufafture. 



Clonegall, {Car/. I.) a village with manufac- 

 tures of linen and coarfe woolen cloth. 



Clones, [Man. I.) an improving town, with the 

 linen manufafture fpread around it. 



Clonmell, the capital of the county of Tipper. 

 ary, is a large town, fituated on the River Suir, 

 which, by means of the tide, can-ies large boats up 

 to it, and even beyond it. There are flourilhing 

 manufaftures of woolen and cotton goods. 



Clonmines, (IVex. /.) a town at the head of a 

 little bay, has had mines of lead and iilver, which 

 are now exhaufted or neglefted ; and the place has 

 confequently decayed. 



Clovelly, [Dev. E.) a maritime town on the 

 Briftol channel. The chief bufinefs is the herring 

 filhery during the feafon. 



Clyde iron-works, (Lart. S.) on the north bank 

 of the Clyde, about 4 miles above Glafgow, were 

 eilablidied in the year 17^6, in a countrj- full of 

 coal and iron-done. They are conducted on a very 

 large fcalc, being, at leaft of the iron-works in Scot- 

 land, next to Carron works. Great guns, bofed 

 out of the folid as at Carron, and all other kinds of 

 caft work, arc made here. Pig iron is alfo made 

 into bars. 



CoAGH, {Tyr. I.) a village near the v.-eft fide of 

 Lough Neagh, with a fliare of the linen manufac- 

 ture. 



CoALBROOK DALE, [Shrop. E.) 3. large thriving 

 village on the north-eail bank of the Severn, animat- 

 ed by a very flourilhing ellablilhment of works for 

 making bar iron, and a variety of articles of cait 

 iron. A bridge, made of caft iron, coniifting of 

 only one arch, whicli admits failing vefTels to pafs 

 under it, was thrown over the river in the year 1 779, 

 and is famous as the lirft fpecimen of that conilruc- 

 tion. 



Coal island. ( Tyr. /.) a village with a mine of 

 coal, which, by the help ot a canal, is conveyed in- 

 to the Blackwater, and thence by Lough Neagh to 

 i arious parts of the countn-. 



The CoAL-woRKs of tlie counties of Northumb- 

 ciland and Durham, according to an account made 

 up in the year 1792 -|-, employed the following 

 numbers and defcriptions of people. 

 Of! the River Tine. 

 Men and boys employed under and above 



jifround, to work tlie coals, convey them 



to the river, and put them into the kec'ls 

 Fitters, with their ck-rks and runners . . . 

 Keel-:nen, with their boys and coal boatmen 



Trimmers, ballaft-heavers, &c 1,000 



Pilots and foymen 500 



Seamen onboard the (hips wliich carry the ") 

 coal to market y 



Cai-penters, ropers, fmiths, fail-makers, &c. ~i 

 employed in repairing the keels and > 

 fliips J 



Purveyors of provifions and (lores for the 7 

 keels and fhips, &c j 



Coal-fadlors, merchants, clerks, ligliter-T 

 men, meters, coal-heavers, car-men, port- > 

 ers, Sac J 



8,000 



946 



1,100 



2,000 



21,900 

 Families of the above men, eftimated at . . 16,575 



Total perfons fupported by the coal-works 1 ,0 «. 



en the Tine ■> J^!! 



On the River IVere, 



Employed under ground 3'°°^ 



Bank-men 50, carriers 50, heap-fhovclersl 



and wailers 200 J 



Blackfmiths and wrights 260 



Viewers 20, overmen and deputies 80 . . • loo 



Agents 20, clerks 20 4° 



Gin-drivers 80, horfe-keepers 40 t20 



Engine-men and brake-men for machines . . 60 



Waggon-men 500, creafers for waggon-l »Qq 



ways 80 J 



Staithmen 20, off-putters &c. 40, loaders^ ^^^ 



100 J 



Keel-men, boys, &c 1,000 



Fitters 60, clerks 100 1 60 



Callers, trimmers, ballall-men, coal boat-3 ^ ^oo 



men J 



Pilots and foymen 1 00 



Seamen onboard the (liips which carr^' the 7 , --q 



coals to market J 



Carpenters, ropers, &c. for repairing keels 1 gg 



and fhips j 



Purveyors of provifions and ilores for? g^- 



keels and fliips, &c J 



Coal-merchants, clerks, lighter-men, &c.") 



in the feveral ports (exclufive of Lon- ( i j^o 



don, which is chiefly fupphed fi-om the f ' 



Tine, J 



Families of tlie above men, eftimated at 



15,000 

 11,250 



:} 



Total perfons fupported by the coal-works 1 2 6 2 CO 

 Oil the Were j ' 



The coal-works in Cumberland and thofe in the 

 Firth of Forth are fuppofed to employ above 6,coQ 

 pit-men, labourers, and feamen, whofe families may 

 be eftimated at 4,500 perfons. 



Thus do thefe brar.ches of the coal trade f\ipport 

 above 75,000 perfons. Coal is aHo fiiipped, to a 

 very confiderable amount, in the Briftol cl\annel, in 



* The Gaelic name, Tieaidruni. Cgnifies the houfc of the ridge, or back-bcnc, of the country. 



+ 1 hcl'e accounts arc taker, frona Lctteis adciri.(icd to the llijht Honourable William Pitt, on the taxes on coal, 1 793, pp. 

 16.— 20. 



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