DURHAM AND NORTHUMBERLAND, 235

Pilots and foymenSeamen and boys.

500

8,000

Shipwrights, keel-builders, &c.. Q46

Purveyors for ships’ keelsCoal factors, clerks, &c..

1,100

2,000

And if one-fourth of theses

have families and three in a > 16,425

family unemployed. )

Making a total at that time

on the Tyne

In 1810, Mr. Bailey, in his “ General Viewof the Agriculture of the County of Durham,”estimated that there were thirty-four watersalecollieries in the county, which annually vended1 , 333,000 chaldrons of thirty-six bushels,and employed 7,011 men, and that the land-sale collieries in Durham vended 147,080 si-milar chaldrons, and employed 382 men. Mr.Bailey calculated that the proportion of coalscarried to the Tyne from the Durham pitswas as eight to five of those carried to theWear. The keelmen on the Wear at that timeamounted to 750 ; casters, trimmers, and fittersto 507 '• so that by the above proportion therewould be 2000 persons employed by theDurham trade on the Tyne ; making the total