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 Accidents and Disasters

ON LAND.

H Colliery lies a mile and a-half ea of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was won abo twenty-five years ago. The workings are carried on in the high main coal, from the di where the engine pits are sunk to the idepth about eighty fathoms, towards the rise, where they may be twenty-five fathoms, covering  the seam, but here the present owners have p down no shafts. The inclination of the stra is nearly east and by south.

To the east and north-west of Heaton-hall, a the wastes of ancient collieries, long since abandoned; and the conductors of the mine, well ware of the great body of water they would ha to contend with when they approached the boundaries, had increased the number of the steam-engines to three, (one of which is of t power of one hundred and thirty horse) the whole being capable of drawing 1,200 gallo each minute; and, by this prudent precaution