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names annexed to each mine. At other parts of this range of 

 mines, they are known by different names, and vary a little both in 

 thickness and quality. 



1 Red Shag Mine, 



2 Brief Furlong ditto, 



3 Bass ditto, 



4 Little Rowe ditto, 



5 Peacock ditto, 



6 Spend Croft ditto, 



7 Great Row ditto, 



8 Cannel Row ditto, 



9 Chalky Row ditto, 



10 Row Hurst ditto, 



11 Burn Wood ditto, 



12 Little ditto, 



13 Four Foot ditto, 



14 Easling ditto, 



15 Topmost of Two Little Mines, 



16 Undermost ditto, ditto, 



17 Whitfield Mine, 



18 Church ditto, 



19 Eight Foot ditto, 



20 Ten Foot ditto, 



21 Bowling Alley ditto, 



22 Sparrow Buts ditto, 



23 Holly Lane ditto, 



24 Iron Stone Coal ditto, 



25 Flats ditto, 



26 Frog Row ditto, 



27 Cockshead ditto, 



28 Lime Kiln ditto, 



29 Ridgway Cannel ditto, 



30 Bullhurst ditto, 



31 Badiley Edge ditto, 



32 Deep Badiley Edge ditto. 



There are also several other thin veins of coal lying between 

 the above mines, which are without names, and have never been got. 



In 1811, Burslem town and parish contained 1,658 houses, 1,720 

 families; 4,119 males, 4,506 females : total, 8,625 persons. Of 

 this population, it was computed that about nine-tenths were em- 

 ployed in, or connected with, the pottery business. 



In 1653 the number of houses and population was so small, that, 

 in the register of an adjoining parish it was then termed parochi- 

 ella the little parish." 



COBRIDGE, is a large village, part in the parish of Burslem, and 

 part in that of Stoke-upon-Trent, and contains several extensive 

 potteries and collieries. The population is considerable, and it is 

 a prosperous and increasing place. Here is a chapel for Roman 

 Catholics. 



ETRURIA, is a considerable village, or regular-built street, chiefly 

 inhabited by potters, and situated on the sides of the Canal, about 

 a mile north-east of Newcastle. It is part of the vill or township 

 of Sheiton, in the chapelry of Hanley and parish of Stoke-upon- 

 Trent, and contains one large manufactory of earthenware, china, 

 &c. Josiah Wedgwood, Esq. who is the proprietor of this extensive 

 pottery, has a handsome seat and plantations on an eminence near 

 the works. The late Mr. Wedgwood, his father, built and named 

 this place after the Italian Etruria, celebrated for the exquisite 

 beauty of its earthenware, the remaining specimens of which served 

 him as models for the improvement of his productions. 



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