Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Black Country like this:

BLACK COUNTRY (The), a tract of mines and ironworks in the S of Stafford, and on the N verge of Warwick. It extends chiefly from Wolverhampton to Birmingham, south-eastward, 13 miles; and from Dudley to Walsall, north-eastward, 7 miles. "The name is eminently descriptive, for blackness everywhere prevails. The ground is black, the atmosphere is black, and the underground is honey-combed by mining galleries stretching in utter blackness for many a league. The scene is marvellous, and to one who beholds it for the f...

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irst time by night, terrific.,"

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