TYNE

the pene city of Northumberland,. situated 8 from the mouth of the river, a busy port Ena bm bars postr town. ed por’ depends mostly on the export o coal, and, as a manufacturing town, on the manufacture of fron and on shipbuilding. The Elswick works, founded by Me rs. Armstrong, tarn out guns and ships for our own and foreign navies. As a shipbuilding town, Newcastle comes close to Glasgow. Newcastle has secn something of nearly all the e3 that have taken Fe bistory dates back tothe Roman period. e Roman Its chief magistrate is now styled Lord Mayor. (For population, etc., see p. 902.) [s. 223]