THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

VOLUME XX., NO. 578] SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1832. [PRICE 2d.

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[Illustration: TANFIELD ARCH, DURHAM.]


Tanfield is a considerable village, situated seven miles from Gateshead,
in the county of Durham, and eight miles in a south-west direction from
Newcastle-on-Tyne. The above arch is about a mile from the village, and
crosses a deep dell, called Causey Burne, down which an insignificant
streamlet finds its sinuous course. The site possesses some picturesque
beauty, though its silvan pride be

After a season gay and brief,
Condemn'd to fade and flee.


It has much of the poet's "bosky bourne," and beside

The huddling brooklet's secret brim,


his pensive mind may feed upon the natural glories of the scene; while,
attuned to melancholy,

In hollow music sighing through the glade,