BKINDLKY'S HOUSE AT TURNHURST. 



in progress at Harecastle Tunnel, which was within easy 

 walking distance, whilst the colliery at Golden Hill was 

 <>nl\ a few fields off. From the elevated ground at 

 (loldon Hill, the whole range of high ground maybe 

 seen under which the tunnel runs the populous pottery 

 towns of Tunstall and Burslem filling the valley of the 

 Trent towards the south. At Golden Hill, Brindley 

 curried out an idea which he had doubtless brought with 

 him from Worsley. He and his partners had an under- 

 ground canal made from the main line of the Harecastle 

 Tunnel into their coal-mine, about a mile and a half in 

 length ; and by that tunnel the whole of the coal above 

 t hat level was afterwards worked out, and conveyed away 

 for sale in the Tottery and other districts, to the great 

 profit of the owners as well as to the equally great con- 

 venience of the public. 



These various avocations involved a great amount of 

 labour as well as anxiety, and probably considerable 

 tear and wear of the vital powers. But we doubt. 

 whether mere hard work ever killed any man, or 

 whether Brindley's labours, extraordinary though they 



