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an eftate of 1 3,500/. a year, and allow their 

 mayor 1200/. a year. Sir Walter Blacket, 

 when he ferves that office, takes nothing. 



Thefe particulars will by no means fatisfy 

 y 0U — they are far from iatisfying myfelf, 

 but they are all I could procure. — I wanted 

 to be informed of the tonnage of their {hip- 

 ping, the number of failors employed, the 

 nature and extent of their foreign trade, the 

 degree of increafe or decreafe, and at what 

 periods, with many other circumftances. — 

 I could infert, in the common hackneyed 

 ftyle, That Newcaftle is a place of very con- 

 fiderable trade, her merchants pojfejfing a very 

 t'xtenfive correfpondence, exporting this, that, 

 and the other, and importing fuch andfuch 

 commodities, Sec. &c. Thefe are the general 

 accounts we meet with in books of geogra- 

 phy, copied from one to another, till a man 

 of any reading is difgufted with the imper- 

 tinence. I may be trifling and abfurd* but 

 I will never give you fuch. pages ofina?iityas 

 thefe. 



The people employed in the coal-mines 

 are prodigioufly numerous, amounting to 



Salvator Rofa. A water fall. Spirited and alive. 



Another ; rocks and wood. Good ; 



but does not appear to me to equal the 



firft. 



ffin. Large landfcapc. In a fine but 



gloomy ftilc. 



manv 



