In the perpetual coming and going of great steamers, bringing in cargoes of “wheat and wine and oil,” and carrying out to all lands the produce of English industry and skill, there is a spectacle which very well atones for the destruction of some little picturesqueness here and there. What was bright and pleasant only is often enough in these cases replaced by what, when properly considered, is sublime.
Aaron Watson.
BLAST FURNACES, FROM THE RIVER, MIDDLESBROUGH.
IN THE POTTERIES.