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ted; SECT. 6—Mnerals.

‘Uy LANCASHIRE has ſome local advantages, which have been the cauſe of rendering the county ſo famous for its manufaQures.

| Theſe in a great meaſure depend upon two moſt material arti-

s ifs cles, coals and water; the former of which lic in immenſe beds

ail towards the ſouthern and middle part, and the various rivers,

Jer&c. which, together with the ſprings, in ſo many places interſe& the county, have conjointly had no ſmall eff& upon the agricul-

ath, ture of this diſtrict, as will be ſeen hereafter. The north and

live north-eaſt diſtridts produce lime-ſtone in abundance, but no

ina calcareous matter except marle is found towards the ſouth; a

e fo ſmall quantity of lime-ſtone pebble upon the banks of the river Merſey is alſo to be except:d. In the townſhip of Halewocd,

CCA near Liverpool, lime-{tone is found and got at diterent depths,

the but in ſmall quantities,

[ as Coals have not been found, as it is ſaid, farther north in the county than Chorley and Colne. The next bed of that uſeful article, after a long ſpace, appears again in immenſe quantities at Whitehaven and Newcaftle-upon-Tyne. The cannel(a

big ſpecies of coal relembling black marble) lies chiefly at Haigh,

‘ide Near Wigan, and occupies a ſpace, as it is ſaid, of about four

ae mules ſquare.| i i:

Near Leigh is found lime of a peculiar quality, which reſiſts

I the effedcts of water, and is therefore applied to the conſtru@tion

ulli- of cifſterns to hold water, and mortar for building under water.

A Aliſo at Ardwick, near Mancheſter, not many ys ago has

O been diſcovered a lime of ſimilar, by ſome it is ſaid of ſuperior,

coul quality.‘The tarras-ciſtern at Drury-lane houſe is of this lime.

4, the There is faid to be coal about Hornby.—“ The exportation of coal to foreign countries is now become a great trade, which has encreaſed rapidly within theſe few years paſt. No doubt this trade 1s beneficial to ſome individuals, and alſo to the reve= nue; at the ſame time we ſhould refle&, that this avidity fon preſent proût has a deadly fing in the tail of it. We are now eagerly ſupplying other nations, and freguently our worſt ene- mies, With thoſe coals, which the metropolis and our manufac-

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