. Records by Spade and Terrier. Development of Plough. (Page 205.) Chapter IX. COAL-MINING INDUSTRY. THERE are two fields, the names of which date back to1664, and which refer to the coal-mining are known as Coalclose and Grove. Thelatter is significant of mining, a grover or groover beingthe old term for a lead miner on the Mendip Hills, and groof orgruffe for a mine. This old industry of lead mining wascarried on long before coal mining in any real sense of the wordwas thought of. Lead was mined and smelted by the Romans,who probably followed on the steps of the early Britons.

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. Records by Spade and Terrier. Development of Plough. (Page 205.) Chapter IX. COAL-MINING INDUSTRY. THERE are two fields, the names of which date back to1664, and which refer to the coal-mining are known as Coalclose and Grove. Thelatter is significant of mining, a grover or groover beingthe old term for a lead miner on the Mendip Hills, and groof orgruffe for a mine. This old industry of lead mining wascarried on long before coal mining in any real sense of the wordwas thought of. Lead was mined and smelted by the Romans,who probably followed on the steps of the early Britons. We know also that the Britons trafficked in tin in Corn-wall from the earliest period, and that it was bought, if not bythe Phoenicians, yet at all events by the Greek colonists ofMarseilles about the middle of the fourth century beforeChrist. Prof. Boyd Dawkins points out that there are severalplace names in Cornwall which seem to be survivals of Phoeni-cian nomenclature, being given by Phoenician sailors. Suchare the River Ta

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