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24O BRISTOL.
expected that I should notice each, or the
numerous neat chapels and meetings of the
DhTenters. The disciples of Wesley seem to
have a prescriptive right to Bristol and the vici-
nity. Indeed, the memory of that teacher of
Methodism deferves real gratitude from the pre-
sent citizens, and the inhabitants of Kingswood.
To him they are indebted for the peaceable pos-
sesnon of their property, and the amelioration
os the savase manners of the colliers who work
the coal-mines Eastward of the City.
As those mines have been thus introduced, I
cannot resill transcribing the ensuing narrative
from the Whitehall Evening Port of Novem-
ber 22, 1735, which, if true, is most extraor-
dinary.
w Brijio!, Nov. 22. Among the many and
various accounts that have been given us of acci-
dents happening to mankind, nothing has occurred
more particular for many years than the following
surprizing relation of three men and a boy, who
were ten days and nineteen hours in a dark cavern
os the earth, 39 fathom deep, besides the danger
that otherwise attended them, of drowning, or
salling from the heights of the mine, the very
coal-work itself being 16 fathom deep.
" The
expected that I should notice each, or the
numerous neat chapels and meetings of the
DhTenters. The disciples of Wesley seem to
have a prescriptive right to Bristol and the vici-
nity. Indeed, the memory of that teacher of
Methodism deferves real gratitude from the pre-
sent citizens, and the inhabitants of Kingswood.
To him they are indebted for the peaceable pos-
sesnon of their property, and the amelioration
os the savase manners of the colliers who work
the coal-mines Eastward of the City.
As those mines have been thus introduced, I
cannot resill transcribing the ensuing narrative
from the Whitehall Evening Port of Novem-
ber 22, 1735, which, if true, is most extraor-
dinary.
w Brijio!, Nov. 22. Among the many and
various accounts that have been given us of acci-
dents happening to mankind, nothing has occurred
more particular for many years than the following
surprizing relation of three men and a boy, who
were ten days and nineteen hours in a dark cavern
os the earth, 39 fathom deep, besides the danger
that otherwise attended them, of drowning, or
salling from the heights of the mine, the very
coal-work itself being 16 fathom deep.
" The