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COALBROOKDALE

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 593 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COALBROOKDALE , a See also:

town and See also:district in the See also:Wellington See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Shropshire, See also:England. The town has a station on the See also:Great Western railway, 16o m. N.W. from See also:London. The district or See also:dale is the narrow and picturesque valley of a stream rising near the Wrekin and following a course of some 8 m. in a See also:south-easterly direction to the See also:Severn. Great ironworks occupy it. They were founded in 1709 by See also:Abraham Darby with the assistance of Dutch workmen, and continued by his son and descendants. See also:Father and son had a great See also:share in the See also:discovery and elaboration of the use of See also:pit-See also:coal for making See also:iron, which revolutionized and saved the See also:English iron See also:trade. The father hardly witnessed the benefits of the enterprise, but the son was fully rewarded. It is recorded that he watched the experimental filling of the See also:furnace ceaselessly for six days and nights, and that, just as fatigue was overcoming him, he saw the molten See also:metal issuing, and knew that the experiment had succeeded. The third Abraham Darby built the famous Coalbrookdale iron See also:bridge over the Severn, which gives name to the neighbouring town of Ironbridge, which with a portion of Coalbrookdale is in the See also:parish of See also:Madeley (q.v.). See also:Fine wrought iron See also:work is See also:pro- duced, and the school of See also:art is well known. There are also See also:brick and See also:tile See also:works.

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FISH (Gadus vixens), also called See also:green See also:cod, See also:black See also:pollack, saith and sillock, a fish of the See also:family Gadidae. It has a very wide range, which nearly coincides with that of the cod, although of a somewhat more See also:southern See also:character, as it extends to both See also:east and See also:west coasts of the See also:North See also:Atlantic, and is occasionally found in the Mediterranean. It is especially See also:common in the north, though rarely entering the Baltic; it becomes rare south of the English Channel. Unlike the cod and See also:haddock, the coal-fish is, to a great extent, a See also:surface-See also:swimming fish, congregating together in large See also:schools, and moving from See also:place to place in See also:search of See also:food; large specimens (3 to 31 ft. See also:long), however, prefer deep See also:water, down to 70 fathoms. The flesh is not so highly valued as that of the cod and haddock. The See also:lower See also:jaw projects more or less beyond the upper, the See also:mental barble is small, sometimes rudimentary, the vent is below the posterior See also:half of the first dorsal fin, and there is a dark spot in the axil of the See also:pectoral fin.

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