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Title: A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial ..
Year: 1776 (1770s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London: : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers, and by R. Baldwin
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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the ground ; trees are fometimes found,lying buried in thefe moijes, and the people make ufe of polesand fpits to difcover where they lie. Thefe trees, when dug up,ferve alfo for firing, and they burn like a torch, which fomepeople fuppofe to be owing to the bituminous ftratum in whichthey lie; but others to the turpentine which they contain, beinggenerally of the fir kind. , The chief rivers in this county are the Merfee, the Ribble,the Wire, and the Lon. The Merfee, rifing in the mountainsof Derbyfhire, runs fouth-weft, dividing that county from Lan-cashire, and being joined by a confiderable ftream called theGout, which parts Derbyfhire and Chefhire, and receiving theTaurie, the Irwel, the Boll en, and feveral other fmall rivers,palTes to Warrington, whence* running weftward, it falls intothe irifh fea at Liverpool. The Ribble rifes in Yorkfhire, andrunning fouth weft, enters the county at Clithero. In its courfethis riyg; js augmented by the Great Colder, the Hodder, the Darv»en?
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 197 Darwen, and the Savock, and dividing Lancashire nearly intotwo equal parts, falls into the Irifli fea not fir frorh Prefton. Inits mouth-or aeftuary, it receives a large river, formed by theconftux/of the ftreams Taud, Dowglas, and Charnock. TheWire is formed by the Little Calder, the Broke, and other fmallftreams, and.running weftward, falls into the Irifli fea about 12miles north of the mouth of the Ribble. The Lon rifes nearKirby-Lonfdale, a market-town of Weftmoreland, and runningfouth-weft is augmented by feveral fleams, and paffes by Lanca-ster, near which it falls into the Irifli fea at a wide channel, whichalfo receives the rivers Coker and Condor. This county has great plenty and variety of fifh : upon thefea coafts are found codfifh, flounders, plaife, and turbbts;the fea dogs, incle fifli, and fheath fifh, are taken upon the fandsnear Liverpool; fturgeon is caught near Warrington, andalong the whole coaft are found green-backs, mullets, foles,fa

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