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Identifier: topographicaldic01capp (find matches)
Title: A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom ..
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Capper, Benjamin Pitts
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Publisher: London : Printed for Richard Phillips
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
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sea whiih divides Suther-land from the county of Ross. At the en-tranre it is 15 miles wide, but at the townof Dornoch not more than two. Here is.the Mkkle Ferry boat: after this it becomesimtich wider, avid forms an inner harbour,where there is another ferry, called theLittle terrif. It is an cxcel!ent roadsted forvessels of considerable burthen. Dornock, a parish in the shire of Dum-fries, Scotland, extejiding along the banksof the Solway Frith, 2 miles from Annan,and 28 from Motiat; containing li8 houvcsand 691 inhabitants. Here are still the re^mains of a mditary road, a druiUical temple,und a strong square lower. DoRHiNCTON, a parish in the hundred ofFle.\well, and parts of Kesteven, Lincoln,3j miles frsm .*>leafoid, and 119 from Lon-don ; containing 46 houses and 225 inhabit-ants. DORSETSHIRE, a county of England^bomulcd on the north by Wiltshire and So-mersetshire;, on the south by the Englisw(hnnnel, on the west by Devonshire, an<lwj the east by Ham(islure3 being aboyt ^
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DOR DOU niil<«i Ion? and 27 broad, and containins:nrarly rVj.UOO acres of laud, of whichqn^iifit3 2,59,000 acres are arable, and430,0()0 acres pastiira.ccc The county is di-vidr-d into five grand divisions, viz. Bland-ford, Bridport, Dorchester, Shaston, andSherborn; and these are again subdivided intoniuncrous liberties and hundreds, some ofthem conaininu not n.ore than two or threesmall villages ; the whole consisting of ninebnroiiqhs, viz. Dorchester, Pool, Lyme,Bridnirt, Corfe Castle, Shaftesbury, AVare-hani, Weymouth, and Melcomb Retris, eachscndine two incmbers to parliament; and 13market-to(in7 houses,inhabited by 115,319 persons, consisting off 53,667 males and 61,6.V2 females, of w hoinI 22,259 were returned as bein? employad intrade a

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