[57]. A reprint was published in 1905 by A. Brown & Sons, Ltd.
[58]. Small loaves of white bread.
[59]. Herons and Bitterns are known to-day in the East Riding as ‘herrin-sews’ and ‘buttherbumps.’
[61]. The floor of the Council Chamber at the Hull Trinity House is still strewn with rushes, these being changed about every six weeks.
[62]. The Prince was one of the five engines employed on the new line. The fastest non-stop run in the British Isles to-day is that made on the N.E.R. from Darlington to York, when 44-1/4 miles are covered in 43 minutes—an average speed of 61.7 miles per hour.
[63]. The Hull Dock Company became extinct in 1893, when its property was purchased by the North Eastern Railway Company.
[64]. The Albert Dock and the William Wright Dock are now combined into one, known as the Albert and William Wright Dock.
[65]. It is expected that this amount will be greatly increased within the next few years by the opening of new collieries around Doncaster, and the tapping of a new ‘Eastern Coalfield,’ which is believed to extend deep down under the Humber and the Wash, right out into the North Sea.
[66]. The first steamboat built in England was constructed in a yard off Wincolmlee, Hull, and was launched in the river Hull. This was in the year 1787, and the engine was patented the next year. The makers, Messrs. Furness & Ashton, afterwards built a larger steam-boat, which was put together in London and bought by the Prince Regent, who rewarded them with a pension of £70 each.