1813.] 



Accident at Felling Colliery^. 



447 



The workmen now began to be employed in carrying on a 

 regular ventilation through the wastes of the mine by stoppings 

 of brick. 



On Thursday, the 6th of August, they found that the stable 

 board had been on fire, and that the solid coal was reduced to a 

 cinder, two feet in thickness. As far as the fire had extended 

 the roof was more fallen than in any other part of the mine. At 

 this time it was ascertained that this fall occurred on the 14th of 

 July. The fire here had probably been caused by the hay 

 igniting at the explosion, and communicating to the coal. The 

 air, too^ while the pits were open, would have its strongest 

 current up this board, and consequently keep the fire alive. 

 This was the only place in which the solid coal had been on fire. 

 In other parts the barrow-way dust was burnt to a cinder, and 

 felt under the feet like frozen snow. 



Number 89 was found under six or seven feet of stone. From 

 this time the ventilation, and search for the remaining bodies, 

 were uniformly persevered in, till September the 1st, when 

 number 90 was discovered ; he had been narrowly missed by 

 some persons who visited this pait in the dark, on the 18th of 

 July. 



The ventilation concluded on Saturday the 19th of September, 

 when number 91 was dug from under a heap of stones. At si^e 

 o'clock in the morning the pit was visited by candle-light, which 

 had not been used in it for the space of 1 17 days; and at eleven 

 o'clock in the morning the tube-furnace was lighted. From this, 

 time the colliery has been regularly at work 3 but the body of 

 number 92 has never yet been found. 



All these persons (except njimbers 1, 4, 5, and 50, who were 

 buried in single graves) were interred in Heworth Chapel-yard,- 

 in a trench, side by side^ two coffin deep, with a partition of 

 brick and lime between every four coffins. Those entered as 

 unknown in the burial register have had names added to them 

 since the search was discontinued. 



Article V. 



Account of a Chalyleate Spring in the Isle of Wight. By Dr. 



Watei*vorth. 



(To Dr. Thomson.) 



SIR, 



Any discovery that promises to be an advantage to mankind, 

 more especially if it tends to improve the heart of healing, and 

 thereby lessens the calamities incident to the humaa body^ 



