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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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inat Wefton rifes here; it boils up like a vaftfpring, and foon afterfalls into the Dove. The Earl of Ferrers has a feat at Shirley, in the hundred ofAppletree, in this county j as alfo the Duke of Portland, atBolfover-caftle ; the Duke of Devonshire, atHardwicke; theDuke of Dorfet, atCroxhallj and Sir Henry Harpur, atCaike,near Derby. YORKSHIRE Is bounded on the weft by Lancashire and part of Chefhire ;on thefouth by Derbyshire, Nottinghamfhire, and Lincolnshire ;on the north by Durham and Weftmoreland ; and on the eaftby the German Ocean. It is by much the largeft county inEngland, and extends 114 miles in length, 80 miles in breadth,and 360 in circumference. The air, foil, and productions of this large county are differentin different parts of it ; and it is generally divided into threeparts, called Ridings, a term which is only a corruption of aSaxon word, which was applied to the third part of a province orcounty ; and the divifion into Ridings, though now peculiar to2 Yorklhire
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. in Yorkfhirc, was, before the Norman invafion, common to feveralother counties in the north of England. The ridings of thiscounty, each of which is as large as moil fhire-s, ?>re diitinguiihcdby the names of the Weft Riding, the Eail Riding, and theNorth Riding. The Weft Riding is bounded by the river Oufeon the eaft, which feparates it from the Eaft Riding, and by theUre on the north, which parts it from the North Riding ; andthe Eaft and North Ridings are feparated by the Derwent. The air in the Weft Riding is (harper, but healthier, than in ei-ther of the other Ridings. The foil on the weftern fide of thisdivifion is hilly and irony, and confequently not very fruitful, butthe intermediate valleys afford plenty of good meadow and pas-ture ground ; and on the fide of this Riding, next the riverOufe, the foil is rich, producing wheat and barley, though notin fuch abundance as oats, which are cultivated with fuccefs inthe moft barren parts of this diftricX _

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