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Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom, containing every city, town, village, hamlet, parish, district, object and place in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and the small islands dependent
Year: 1826 (1820s)
Authors: Capper, Benjamin Pitts
Subjects: Great Britain
Publisher: London G.B. Whittaker
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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48in agriculture. The amount of the assess-ment under the property tax in 1815, was£1,900,651, and the amount of the poors-rates in 1815, was £233,387; being at the rateof 2s. 5f d. in the pound. Theaverage scale ofmortality for 10 years appears to have beer,as 1 to 63 of the population. It sends 16members to parliament; is included in thewestern circuit, the province of Canter-bury, and in the diocese of Bath and Wells.The rivers of Somersetshire are numerous,but not large, their course being chieflywithin the county. The principal is theParret, which rising on the southern parts,flows northward, and is joined by the Ivelfrom the east, then by the Tone from thewest, and afterwards emptying itself intothe Bristol channel at Bridgewater Bay ;the small river Ax, from the north, passesAxbridge, and falls into the Bristol chan-nel , the Bruce rises near Bruton, and fallsinto the Bristol channel. The Parret,the Tone, and the Bruce, are each navi-gable for limited distances. On the north-
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SOM ENGLAND AND WALES SOM east, several small streams run into theAvon, which, after washing Bath, formsthe limit between Gloucester and Somer-setshire, dividing the city of Bristol, andterminating in the Bristol channel. Fewcounties contain a greater variety of soilthan Somersetshire ; it is, however, chieflyof a highly fertile, and productive quality,and is particularly noted as a cider coun-try. The north-eastern part is in generalstony, and possesses a lofty mineral tract,called the Mendip Huh, affording abund-ance of coal, lead, and calamine ; the leadis particularly hard, and is mostly export-ed for making bullets and shot; the cala-mine is sent to Bristol, being used in themaking of brass; copper, manganese, bole,and red ochre, are also found in these fiats,the tops of which are large swampy hills,dangerous to cross. In different parts of thecounty, paving-stone, free-stone, marl, andfullers-earth are found in abundance. Be-low them, on the banks of the Ax, is Ched-der, celebra

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