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Durham, for " Hutchinson's History of Durham," 

 in which my friend, the late George fiJlan, Esq., 

 of the Grange, Darlington, took a conspicuous 

 part. A set of cuts was done for " Goldsmith's 

 Deserted Village," for Mr. Walker, printer of 

 Hereford. Mr. Nicholson, printer of Ludlow and 

 Poughnill, the publishers of " Elegant Selections 

 from Various Authors," employed me to embellish 

 some of these with wood cuts. My old friend, Air. 

 Bulmer, of the Shakespeare Printing Office, London, 

 also employed me to execute the cuts for Parnell's 

 " Hermit " and Goldsmith's " Deserted Village." 

 Many other cuts were done, from time to time, 

 for printers in various parts of the kingdom. 

 These formed an almost endless variety. I 

 engraved a series of copper plates, at a low rate, 

 for Sir Harry Liddell's and Captain Consett's 

 "Tour to Lapland," in 1786.* My partner and 

 self were busily engaged in engraving, about the 

 year 1796, the plan of the proposed canal from 

 Newcastle to Carlisle, as projected by Mr. 

 Chapman, engineer, and plans of estates and views 

 of the mansion houses of a few gentlemen who 

 opposed the canal, on the north side of the Tyne. 

 After a great deal of scheming and mancevring, 

 under the management of Ralph Heron, an 

 attorney of great ability, the whole of this great, 

 this important national as well as local undertaking 

 was baffled and set aside. Most men of discern- 

 ment were of opinion that the coalowners "below 



[ * Hutchinson's " History and Antiquities of the County Palatine 

 of Durham," was published in 1785 ; Goldsmith's " Poetical Works" 

 1794; "Literary Miscellany" (Elegant Selections), circa 1799; 

 Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell, 1795 ; arid Liddell and Consett's 

 "Tour through Sweden, Swedish Lapland, Finland, and Denmark," 

 in 1789.] 



