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Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 578
Vol. XX, No. 578. Saturday, December 1, 1832

Author: Various

Release Date: November 10, 2004 [EBook #14008]

Language: English

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THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

VOLUME XX., NO. 578] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1832. [PRICE 2d.

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[Illustration: TANFIELD ARCH, DURHAM.]

Tanfield is a considerable village, situated seven miles from Gateshead,
in the county of Durham, and eight miles in a south-west direction from
Newcastle-on-Tyne. The above arch is about a mile from the village, and
crosses a deep dell, called Causey Burne, down which an insignificant
streamlet finds its sinuous course. The site possesses some picturesque
beauty, though its silvan pride be

After a season gay and brief,
Condemn'd to fade and flee.

It has much of the poet's "bosky bourne," and beside

The huddling brooklet's secret brim,

his pensive mind may feed upon the natural glories of the scene; while,
attuned to melancholy,

In hollow music sighing through the glade,
The breeze of autumn strikes the startled ear,
And fancy, pacing through the woodland shade,
Hears in the gust the requiem of the year.

KIRKE WHITE'S _Early Poems_.

The ARCH was an architectural wonder of the last century. It was built
in the year 1729, as a passage for the wagon-way, or rail-road for the
conveyance of coals from collieries in the vicinity of Tanfield, which
were the property of an association called "the Great Allies." It is a
magnificent stone structure, one hundred and thirty feet in the span,
springing from abutments nine feet high, to the height of sixty feet:
a dial is placed on the top with a suitable inscription. The expense
of its construction is stated to have amounted to 12,000_l._; the
masonry is re