APPENDIX, No. IV. 



COMMERCIi^ 



the Trent, which is navigable for faih'ng craft, has 

 a good trade in corn, mah, wool, lime-ftone, and a 

 kind of ftone of the nature of plafter of Paris (if 

 not the fame) found on the Beacon hill. A cot- 

 ton mill gives employment to about 300 people, 

 moftly women and children. 



Newbigging, ( Northiimb. E.) a fifliing village, 

 fituated on a point between the mouths of the 

 Lyne and the Wandfbeck. 



Newbvrgh, (Aberd. S.) a village at the mouth 

 of the River Ythan, which forn-.s a harbour for vef- 

 fels of 150 tuns. A few veffels belong to the place, 

 and are employed in coafting and trading to Nor- 

 xvay. Pearls have been found in the river, but are 

 not an objeft worth the labour of fearching for 

 them. 



Newburgh, (ylrig. jy.) a fmall town, with 

 manufactures of cordasre and mats, made from mar- 

 jne plants. 



Newburgh, (Fife, S.) a fmall town on the 

 fouth Ihore of the Tay, which is here navigable for 

 fhips of 500 tuns. There is a good landing place 

 with piers, &c. but it is too near to Dundee and 

 Perth to have any confiderable commerce. Silefias, 

 ofnabuigs, and brown linens, are the chief manufac- 

 tures. 



Newbury, (Bcrl. E.) a confiderable town on 

 the River Kennet, which is navigable to it, was 

 once the feat of a n)oft flouriihing woolen manu- 

 jadlure, moft of which has in procefs of time mov- 

 ed farther weft. There are ilill manufaftures of 

 druggets and fome flialloons : and great quantities 

 of malt are made here, and fcnt down to London 

 by water. 



Newcastle, fXorthumh. E.) a large, hand- 

 fome, and profperous, town, fituated on the north 

 bank of the Tine, about ten miles from its mouth. 

 The tide, which flows about eight miles above the 

 town, carries veffcls of good burthen up to the 

 bridge ; and they load and unload with their fides 

 clofe to the quay, which is larger and longer than 

 that of Briftol, or any other port in the kingdom, 

 except Yarmouth. The largeft fiiips, and the coal 

 (hips in general, come no higher than Shiels ; and 

 the coals are carried down in keels (veffels of a 

 limited fize, fcrving at once for meafures and light- 

 ers) which take them from the ftaiths, or rtiipping 

 places, neaiell to the mines. The coal niinea are the 

 fource of the trade and opulence of Newcaftle, and 

 the fupports of its manufadiures, which compre- 

 hend glafs of every kind, ironmongery, and pot- 

 tery, all very extcnfive, and, alfo of late, iron- 

 works. Salt, another article dependent upon abund- 

 ance of fuel, is made at the mouth of the river ; 

 and there are many windmills on the adjacent moor 

 for exprefling oil, and for other manufaftures re- 

 quiring powerful machinery. Grindllones, for which 

 Newcallle has been famous as long as for coal, are 

 cut and exported in great numbers. Belides the 

 prodigious quantity of fliipplng employed in fup- 

 plying London and other places with coal, the 

 merchants fend many vclTcls to other pjrts of the 



kingdom, and alfo to molt parts of Europe, and 

 fome to the Greenland filhery ; and their port 

 ftands the third in the kingdom in refpeA to the 

 quantity of fliipping, and is fcarcely inferior to 

 Liverpool. The veffels built for the coal trade are 

 remarkable for being (Irong and ferviceable. 



The coals fliipped in the port of Newcaftle in 

 the year 1 799 were 



for London - - 332,165 chaldrons. 



other ports ia Great Britain 1 15,654 

 foreign parts - - 43)3^6 

 Eight of thefe chaldrons make generally above fif- 

 teen of the London pool mcafure. See Coal-, 

 works. 



Newcastle, {Staff'. E.) a confiderable town, 

 with a manufafture of hats, but now more noted 

 as being furrounded by the various feats of the 

 earthen-ware manufafture. See Potteries. 



Newent, f Clone. E.) a town in the foreft of 

 Dean, which Is rifing into confequence by means 

 of coal mines lately difcovered befide it, whereby 

 there are hopes of effe£ling a reftoration of the 

 iron-works, which were wrought here fince the 

 time of the Roman dominion in the ifland, till the 

 want of wood fuel obh'ged the undertakers to throw 

 them up. 



Newhaven, [SuJ'. E.) a fmall fea-port at the 

 mouth of the Onle, by the navigation of which it 

 fupplies the country as far up as Lewes, and a little 

 way above it, with coal, deals, &c. and gets in re- 

 turn the corn, wood, bark, &c. of the country. 

 The harbour admits only fmall veffels ; and fome 

 fuch are built in it. 



Newnham, (Gkuc. E.J a town on the weft fide 

 of the Severn, the chief bufinefs of which is (hip- 

 building. 



Newport, (Hamp. E.J a large town, the cap- 

 ital of the Ifie of Wight, about five miles above 

 the mouth of the River Medina, which carries fmall 

 veffels up to it, by which, and its fituation near the 

 center of a fertile country, it has a pretty good 

 trade. 



Newport, (Mon. E.) a good town near the 

 mouth of the L'llc, which makes a harbour for 

 fmall velfels. Shipbuilding is the principal bufinefi 

 of the place. 



Newport, [Pemb. IF.) a fmall town at the 

 mouth of the River Newerne, which was a good 

 harbour, till the ftream changed its courfe. 



Newport Pagnel, (Buck, E.J a confiderable 

 town on the River Oufe, with a good market for 

 corn, and alfo for bone lace, the manufafture of 

 the town and adjacent country. 



Newport Pratt, (Mayo, I.J a fmall town, 

 fituated on a river at the head of a large bay, open- 

 ing to the Atlantic ocean, and ftudded with innu- 

 merable illands, among which there is excellent an- 

 chorage. Though ranked as a port, its (hipping 

 is very trifling, and its fmall exports confift chiefly 

 of corn. 



New Ross, (IVtx. I.) a good town on the Ri- 

 ver Barrow, which carries large veffels up to the 



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