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Pittsburg is the Merthyr-Tydvil of Pennsylvania or perhaps I should better describe it as an amalgamation of Swansea, Merthyr-Tydvil, and South Shields. It is, without exception, the blackest place which I ever saw. The three English towns which I have named are very dirty, but all their combined soot and grease and dinginess do not equal that of Pittsburg.
A loose flannel shirt, which had once been red, a pair of indescribable trowsers, and thick-soled shoes, completed his dress, an attire which I at once recognized as that common among the coal-miners of the district. "'Deed and truth, Sur, they is cinder-heaps and slag from the iron-works, Sur; and yon is Merthyr-Tydvil, sure."
There are several instances of the successful use of a much smaller area than is here indicated, by the use of intermittent downward filtration. The most noted success in this direction is that at Merthyr-Tydvil in Wales, a large mining town, where the allowance is only one acre to each two thousand of the population.
The industry of the towns is of that sort which arises from a union of coal and iron in the vicinity. The Pennsylvanian coal fields are the most prolific in the Union; and Pittsburg is therefore great, exactly as Merthyr-Tydvil and Birmingham are great.
Gladstone, but who, having been thrown overboard at the general election by the new constituency of Merthyr-Tydvil, was still destitute of the essential condition to the retention of the high honour to which he had been nominated by his political chief. The manner in which the constituencies of Scotland, and especially those of our northern shires, responded to Mr.
Piloted by our dusky guide, not exactly, though, like Campbell's "Morning brought by Night," we soon reached the town, which is named after a young lady of legendary times named Tydfil, a Christian martyr, of which Merthyr-Tydvil is a corruption, and made the best of our way to the Bush Inn, where we treated our sable friend to some cwrw dach, Anglicé, strong ale; and after a hearty supper of Welsh rabbit, which Tom Ingoldsby calls a "bunny without any bones," and "custard with mustard," which, as made in the Principality, it much resembles, I took a stroll through the town.
"To be sure there are the county courts now, and they are better. I suppose you wouldn't like to live at Leeds or Merthyr-Tydvil?" "Of course I shall live wherever he goes; but I don't know why you should send him to Merthyr-Tydvil." "Those are the sort of places they do go to. There is young Mrs. Bright Newdegate, she had to go to South Shields, and her babies are all dreadfully delicate.
He withdrew from practice in 1843, but still retained his name on the rolls of Lincoln's Inn. In 1847, four years after this withdrawal, he received the appointment of Stipendiary Magistrate at Merthyr-Tydvil and Aberdare, the office previously held by his father, and for a period of more than five years he presided at the Police Courts of those towns.
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