The coal seam proved to be far richer than had been anticipated, and those expert in such matters said there were undoubted indications of the near presence of iron ore.

Great furnaces began to loom up in Crawford's mental vision, and to cast splendid lustres across his future fortunes.
In a month after the departure of the clan, the little clachan of Traquare had greatly changed.

Long rows of brick cottages, ugly and monotonous beyond description, had taken the place of the more picturesque sheilings.

Men who seemed to measure everything in life with a two-foot rule were making roads and building jetties for coal-smacks to lie at.

There was constant influx of strange men and women--men of stunted growth and white faces, and who had an insolent, swaggering air, intolerably vulgar when contrasted with the Doric simplicity and quiet gigantic manhood of the mountain shepherds.
The new workers were, however, mainly Lowland Scotchmen from the mining districts of Ayrshire.