. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . the dense line of erections, receding into remote perspective along theopposite shore. In this mighty assemblage of buildings, we readily distinguish the churchof St. Nicholas, the castle, the new county courts, the church of All-Saints, and theexchange. There is an air of commercial greatness in the scene ; and the distant shipping,of which the principal part, probably, is engaged in the coal trade, forcibly reminds us ofthe coll
. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . the dense line of erections, receding into remote perspective along theopposite shore. In this mighty assemblage of buildings, we readily distinguish the churchof St. Nicholas, the castle, the new county courts, the church of All-Saints, and theexchange. There is an air of commercial greatness in the scene ; and the distant shipping,of which the principal part, probably, is engaged in the coal trade, forcibly reminds us ofthe colliers, to whom a description of the Cimmerians, by Homer, may very well apply: The gloomy race, in subterranean cells, Among surrounding shades and darkness in th unwholesome covert of the night,They shun th approaches of the cheerful Sun neer visits their obscure retreats,Nor when he runs his course, nor when he sets. NORTH AND SOUTH SHIELDS,—NORTHUMBERLAND, AND DURHAM. North Shields, Northumberland, forming the principal feature in the illustrative view,is a place of considerable antiquity, standing on the north bank of the river
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