| Description | [She is sorry to hear such a dismal account of the mines.The muslin and cambric trade. 'This country is grown very wicked. 'the Lower Class of people are certainly much more so than formerly...'. They have adopted English customs, feasting, drinking and 'strolling about on Sunday which brings them to expences that they cannot support consequently the[y] grow thieves and robbers..' Mrs Muirhead of Herbertshire's social life; she is quite changed.] |