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The remains of the wall are still to be traced in the less populous hill-districts of Northumberland. In the neighbourhood of Newcastle they have been gradually effaced by the works of succeeding generations, though the “Wallsend” coal consumed in our household fires still serves to remind us of the great Roman work.
At length I stand on the pier of Beyrout, while my luggage is being embarked for the Austrian steamer lying in the roads, which, in the Levantine slang, has lighted her chibouque, and is polluting yon white promontory, clear cut in the azure horizon, with a thick black cloud of Wallsend. I bade a hurried adieu to my friends, and went on board.
Passing down the Tyne from Newcastle, which requires separate notice, and Walker, with its reminiscences of "Walker Pit's deun weel for me," we arrive at Wallsend, which in twenty-five years has grown from a colliery village with a population of 4,000 to a town of 23,000 inhabitants.
There is now no Wallsend coal, and the principal part of the present so-called coal comes from the Wear, but the seam which supplied that famous pit is continued into Durham, and that seam, or its equivalent, sends a million or two of tons every year into London. The supply, however, in this district is rapidly decreasing.
Fairfax called to pay her little bill, actually took off his hat, begged her to be seated, and hoped she did not find the last lot of coals dusty. He was now unloading some of the best Wallsend that ever came up the river, and would take care that the next half ton should not have an ounce of small in it. "You'll find it chilly where you are living, ma'am, but it isn't damp, that's one comfort.
If I am not trying your case I shall be trying some one else's, and it is a matter of perfect indifference to me whose case it is." An hour after in came a brisk junior stating that his leader was unavoidably absent. "What is the application, Mr. Wallsend?" "There's a case on your lordship's list for to-morrow, my lord." "Yes. What number?" "Number seven, my lord.
Buddle, "three distinct subsidences were perceptible at the surface, after the clearing out of three seams of coal below, and innumerable vertical cracks were caused in the incumbent mass of sandstone and shale which thus settled down." Section of carboniferous strata at Wallsend, Newcastle, showing "creeps." The upper seam, or main coal, here worked out, was 630 feet below the surface.
These mines, after having been closed for many years, were reopened at the beginning of the century, and now turn out upwards of one thousand tons of coal per day. The church of St. Peter, at Wallsend, is little more than a hundred years old; the old Church of Holy Cross, now long disused, was built towards the end of the twelfth century.
Dinner discussed, and its etceteras having been partaken, in full consciousness of the comforts which surrounded me, contrasted with the discomforts, &c. from which I had escaped, I sank into an agreeable reverie; and during a vision, I must not call it a doze, composed of port wine and walnuts the invigorating beams of Wallsend coal an occasional fancied jolt of the coach the three mouthfuls of dinner, by the name, I had gotten at Oxford and the escape of my one neck, when, goose as I was, I presented it where two seemed to be an essential by the sign of the habitation and the dangers of the gate, I was aroused by a crash, something like the noise of the machine which accompanies the falling of an avalanche or a castle, or some such direful affair at "Astley's;" and starting up, I thought, had the coach upset? but, much to my gratification, found myself a safe "inside."
'I would rather have approached my respected father by candlelight, as a theme requiring a little artificial brilliancy; but we will take him by twilight, enlivened with a glow of Wallsend. He stirred the fire again as he spoke, and having made it blaze, resumed. 'My respected father has found, down in the parental neighbourhood, a wife for his not-generally-respected son.
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