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Title: The earth and its inhabitants ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905 Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913 Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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Depth under ôTathoms. Depth ovoi 5Fathoms. 1 Mile. time of the early Norman kings, Hartlepool in course of time fell from its highestate, and at the beginning of the present century had hardly 1,000 inhabitants.The leading place in the commercial movements of England, which it has taken since1832, is wholly due to the opening of coal mines in its vicinity, and to the construc-tion of docks, quays, and warehouses. The present town of Hartlepool is altogether acreation of modern times. Its docks, accessible to vessels drawing 26 feet of water,partly occupy an ancient inlet of the sea, and quite a new town, West Hartlepool,has sprung up to the south of them. Hartlepool imports corn, flour, timber, andlive animals, and exports in return coal and the produce of its iron and engineeringworks. Ship-building is actively carried on. T/iroston is a small town to thewestward, and almost a suburb of Hartlepool.
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DURHAM. 291 The only place of note along the rather tame coast between Hartlepool andSunderland is Seaham, near which are important collieries. The river Wear, with all its tributaries, lies wholly within the county of Durham.Rising- near the Kilhope Law, it first flows through the weird and picturesqueWeardale, and then, forcing itself a passage through a succession of gorges, findsits way to the German Ocean. Castles and parks are numerous along its banks,and alternate with collieries and iron works, but notwithstanding manufactoriesand the unsightly heaps of slags, its valley still remains the Arcadia of England.Stanhope, in the upper part of the valley, depends upon the lead mines andquarries in its neighbourhood. On reaching Wolsinghant, we first enter the coaland iron region. All around it, as well as about Touiaic, to the north-east of it,coal, iron, and limestone are found in abundance. Bkliop Auckland, prettilyseated on a hill, has an old castle, one of the manorial residence

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