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Lithographic Views, Westmorlandand Cumberland

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A LITHOGRAPHIC VIEW OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES IN ENGLAND; BY THE LATE MR. EMANUEL MENDEZ DA COSTA, F.R.S.
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WESTMORELAND. A county full of mines, and abounds also in many curious fossils of different kinds, as very fine cubic fluors, crystals, petrifactions, &c. Slate quarries at Troutbeck Park. Lead mines at Hartley, Kirkby Steven, &c.
Cumberland. A county full of mines and minerals. Whitehaven, the great coal-pits that even run under the bed of the sea. Petrifactions abound in this county. The awful slate fells, and slate quarries at Newlands. Keswick and Barrowdale black-lead mines, fine haematites and rubrica or Reddle ore at Langtron near Whitehaven, and at Egremont, &c. Copper mines at Caudbeck, Goldscalp, &c.; lead mines at Nenthead, Newlands, Alston Moor, Thornthwaite, Barrow, and the many lead mines of the Derwentwater estate. In Barrow, Brickhilburn, and several other of these mines, fine and curious Spathose lead ores are found; the fibrous kinds thay call stringy ores. Lead, copper, and iron mines in the manor of Millom. Salt pans at Bransty Cliff near Whitehaven.
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Yorkshire ... Iron manufactories at Sheffield and Rotherham; at these places thay smelt the rich and good iron ores of Lancashire, Cumberland, and Northumberland. ...
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