Their mines are all horizontal.

The coal burns well, but with a very black and dirty cinder.
We found the coach, by which we meant to proceed to Little Washington, full, and learnt that we must wait two days before it would again leave the town.

Posting was never heard of in the country, and the mail travelled all night, which I did not approve of; we therefore found ourselves compelled to pass two days at the Wheeling hotel.
I know not how this weary interval would have worn away, had it not been for the fortunate circumstance of our meeting with a _bel esprit_ among the boarders there.

We descended to the common sitting room (for private parlours there are none) before breakfast the morning after our arrival; several ordinary individuals entered, till the party amounted to eight or nine.
Again the door opened, and in swam a female, who had once certainly been handsome, and who, it was equally evident, still thought herself so.

She was tall, and well formed, dressed in black, with many gaudy trinkets about her: a scarlet _fichu_ relieved the sombre colour of her dress, and a very smart little cap at the back of her head set off an immense quantity of sable hair, which naturally, or artificially, adorned her forehead.
A becoming quantity of rouge gave the finishing touch to her figure, which had a degree of pretension about it that immediately attracted our notice.