•294 MISES, MF.T.U.S, AND GEMS. 
extinguish it, was refused. It gi-adnally 
ever, and had continued burning for thirty 
account was drawn up and published in the ' hj . 
Traiisactions : it was not finally extinguished 
fuel was consumed. Examples of a similar kit’ 
peued in Scotland and in Germany. 
FELLING COLLIERY, ^ 
But of ail the recorded accidents relative tf 
that of Foiling Colliery, near Sunderland, a V 
live of which here follows, was the mostdisast j 
- _1a.* ^ _/1** . 
Fp.elixg is a manor about a mile and a halt ^ 
head. It contains several strata of coal, the 
which were extensively wrought in the begH'!' ,,'3* 
last century. The stratum called the High-nia.^ 
in 1779 , and continued to be wrought till the 
1811, when it was entirely excavated. The P’’®' .eti'^^tl 
"“Sfi 
is in the seam called the Low-main. 
October, 1810, and was at full work in ]May> ^ j^l 
mine was considered by the workmen as a tf geP’’ ii' 
fection in the purity of its air, and orderly 
Its inclined plane was saving the daily 
13 horses — the concern wore the features °^.;fiiagf'/ 
possible {jrosperity, and no accident, except a 
sion of fire-damp slightly burning two or thre t 
had occurred. Two shifts or 
employed, except on Sundays. 
Two sh fts or sets of men .[.gs -.i 
Twenty five i"" ' 
had been excavated. The first shift enten 
jred ,e ' j; 
four o'clock A. M. and were relieved at 'fl!V 
posts by the next at 11 o’clock in the 
blishment it employed under-ground, consj^^ il'\i'' 
tJw , e<I'^ 
128 persons, who, in the fortnight from j,ai, j, 
2,5th of May, 1812, WTOUght 624 scores oi 
1300 Newastle chaldrons, or 2455 London 
Aboi'.t half past eleven o’clock on the morn'' 
of May, 1812, the neighbouring villages 
tremendous explosion in this colliery. The su > jv 
broke forth w'ith two heavy discharges from ' ’ 
which were almost instanfaneonsly followed ^ f 
the High-main. A slight trembling as from 
was felt for about half a mile around fi’® ' 
the noisa of the explosion, thougir dull, was h®‘ 
