the following account of the Coal Trade isgiven: ” Many thousand people are employedin this trade of coales; many live by con-veying them in waggons and waines to theriver Tyne/ ’ &e. And in p. 31 of the samework; he states, “ Some south gentlemen hath,upon great losse of benefit, come into thiscountry to hazard their monies in coale pitsMaster Beaumont, a gentleman of great inge-nuity and rare parts, adventured into ourmines with his £30,000, who brought withhim many rare engines not known then in thoseparts, as the art to boore with iron rodds, totry the deepnesse and thicknesse of the Coale ;rare engines to draw water out of the pits ;waggons with one horse to carry down coalesfrom the pits to the staythes to the river, &c. ;within a few years, he consumed all hismoney, and rode home upon his light horse.”
Considering that the carts employed in con-veying the coals were, in 1 (i02, called “waynes,”and the carriages introduced by Master Beau-mont “ waggonsand also, that ever sincethat period, the carriages employed upon Rail-roads have been designated by that name; wemay infer, that the <r waggon” of Mr. Beau-mont was applied upon a Rail-way, and thathe was the first to introduce them into the-'north.