Sea filled slate quarries on Seil ( foreground ) and Easdale in the Slate Islands

Caernarfon was at one time an important port, exporting slate from the Dyffryn Nantlle quarries.

Over the next few decades many slate quarries were created increasing the population of the town, as well as generating a source of income for residents.

Historically, structural iron, knit goods, and silk were manufactured in Slatington, and there were abundant slate quarries in the area.

It was largely settled by Italians employed at the numerous local slate quarries.

After arriving in New York, a number of families whose male members were quarrymen in the old country, went to the slate quarries of New York and Vermont, but the majority of them turned their faces " Westward ," a word taken as their motto before leaving their native land.

Branches served the slate quarries at Corris Uchaf, Aberllefenni, the isolated quarries around Ratgoed and quarries along the length of the Dulas Valley.

Proposals to construct a line to connect the slate quarries in the district around Corris, Corris Uchaf and Aberllefenni with wharves on the estuary of the Afon Dyfi at Derwenlas and Morben, south-west of Machynlleth, first appeared around 1850 with Arthur Causton as engineer.

At this time slate from the quarries was hauled by horse-drawn carts and sledges to transport their output to the river.

The line was opened in 1866 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn, and was the first narrow gauge railway in Britain authorised by Act of Parliament to carry passengers using steam haulage.

The last two decades of the 19th century saw a decline in the demand for slate and many smaller quarries fell on hard times, including Bryn Eglwys, where by 1890 production had halved to a year.

In 1896, production at the Penrhyn Quarry in north Wales, one of the largest producers of slate, was stopped due to labour disputes, resulting in a temporary increase in demand at other quarries.

The line was constructed between 1833 and 1836 to transport slate from the quarries around the inland town of Blaenau Ffestiniog to the coastal town of Porthmadog where it was loaded onto ships.

: PUBLIC MEN ON PUBLIC AFFAIRS The Derby Mercury ( Derby, England ), October 21, 1891 ; Issue 9223 " SIR CHARLES DILKE AND THE BISHOPS " " A mass meeting of the slate quarry-men of Festiniog Wales was held Wednesday night 14 to protest against certain dismissals from one of the quarries ...." He observed that the speeches of the Bishops on the disestablishment question reminded him that there were three degrees of untruth -- a fib, a lie, and statistics ( Laughter )"

The rapidly expanding cities of England needed high quality roofing slate, which was transported to the new port by tramway from the quarries in Ffestiniog and Llanfrothen.

The area is known for its limestone and slate quarries.

* Alice ( locomotive ), a Hunslet 0-4-0 &# 160 ; ST, used to work in the Dinorwic slate quarries at Llanberis, in North Wales

The original line also had a branch to Bryngwyn and the slate quarries at Moel Tryfan, which has not been restored.

The Croesor Tramway had run from Portmadoc since 1863 up into the Croesor Valley and the slate quarries in this area.

From 1859 to 1948 the town was served by the narrow gauge Corris Railway, which brought slate from the quarries around Corris and Aberllefenni for onward despatch to the markets.

Once the centre of the British slate industry, Easdale had a community of more than 500 working as many as seven quarries, some of which extended to 300 feet below sea level.

The last slate was cut in the 1950s and the once active quarries are little more than still pools which provide a safe haven for a wide variety of flora and bird life.

They can write braille with a slate and stylus or type it on a braille writer, such as a portable braille note-taker, or on a computer that prints with a braille embosser.

The primaries are black to slate gray, with dark coverts and blackish on the secondaries.

The area is underlain by Black Rock slate, Burrington Oolite and Clifton Down Limestone of the Carboniferous Limestone Series, which contain ooliths and fossil debris on top of Old Red Sandstone, and by Dolomitic Conglomerate of the Keuper.

The notion of tabula rasa (" clean slate " or " blank tablet ") connotes a view of mind as an originally blank or empty recorder ( Locke used the words " white paper ") on which experience leaves marks.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

Roads and quays were built ; the slate industry became a significant employer on Easdale and surrounding islands ; and the construction of the Crinan and Caledonian canals and other engineering works such as Telford's " Bridge across the Atlantic " improved transport and access.

As Christophe Pallier noted, " Before the child begins to speak and to perceive, the uncommitted cortex is a blank slate on which nothing has been written.

However, eggs are laid on a flat piece of slate or other smooth hard material, to which they adhere.

The winning slate of electors meet at its state's capital on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, about six weeks after the election, to vote.

The red wolf pup begins life with a slate or dark gray pelt with auburn-tinged fur visible on its head.

Lead, which is sometimes used for church roofs, was most commonly used as flashing in valleys and around chimneys on domestic roofs, particularly those of slate.

Steel shingle or standing-seam roofs last about 50 years or more depending on both the method of installation and the moisture barrier ( underlayment ) used and are between the cost of shingle roofs and slate roofs.

When the council met on 16 October 1962, a new slate of commission members was presented and approved by the Council.

The term in Latin equates to the English " blank slate " ( or more accurately, " scraped tablet ") ( which refers to writing on a slate sheet in chalk ) but comes from the Roman tabula or wax tablet, used for notes, which was blanked by heating the wax and then smoothing it to give a tabula rasa.

The first print reference to a game called " tick-tack-toe " occurred in 1884, but referred to " a children's game played on a slate, consisting in trying with the eyes shut to bring the pencil down on one of the numbers of a set, the number hit being scored ".

By one report, almost all of the 92 candidates who ran on the NLP slate in California in 1996 were TM practitioners.

There were reported to be between 80 and 175 candidates on the NLP slate.

The winning slate of electors meet at its state's capital on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, about six weeks after the election, to vote.

In this overwhelmingly Democratic state, he was elected after the Democratic nominee, George P. Mahoney, a Baltimore paving contractor and perennial candidate running on an anti-integration platform, narrowly won the Democratic gubernatorial primary out of a crowded slate of eight candidates, trumping early favorite Carlton R. Sickles.

The League of Negro Voters put together a " Third Slate " of 59 candidates, announcing the slate on June 27, 1964.