. The earth and its inhabitants ... ^ carried on. Cheadle, in the moorlandsto the west of the Churnet, is a small market town. Uttoxeter is the principaltown on the Lower Dove. The inhabitants engage in the manufacture of clockcases and agricultural machinery, and in cork-cutting. There now remains to be noticed the great manufacturing and mining districtin South Staffordshire known as the Black Country. Though hardly 150 Fig- 118.—Lichfield OATiiEnRAi,.. square miles in extent, this district (including the adjoining town of Birmingham,which is virtually its capital) supports more than a milli
. The earth and its inhabitants ... ^ carried on. Cheadle, in the moorlandsto the west of the Churnet, is a small market town. Uttoxeter is the principaltown on the Lower Dove. The inhabitants engage in the manufacture of clockcases and agricultural machinery, and in cork-cutting. There now remains to be noticed the great manufacturing and mining districtin South Staffordshire known as the Black Country. Though hardly 150 Fig- 118.—Lichfield OATiiEnRAi,.. square miles in extent, this district (including the adjoining town of Birmingham,which is virtually its capital) supports more than a million inhabitants. It owesits prosperity to its mineral treasures. Coal, iron, the limestone required for fusingit, and even the clay from which the bricks for lining the furnaces are made, arefound here in juxtaposition. Many discoveries of great importance have beenmade in the manufactories of this district, and especially in the Soho Works, nearWest Bromwich. The coal found here is admirably adapted for the manufactureof tar and aniline, and is largely used for these purposes. The principal coal seamof the basin has a thickness of 10 yards, and has proved a source of great it is nearly exhausted. There remain now only 100,000,000tons of coal, which at the present rate of consumption will hardly suffice foranother century, at the close of which the manufacturers will have to migrate to amore favoured 242 THE BRITIS
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