A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain: Divided Into Circuits Or Journies. Containing, I. A Description of the Principal Cities ... By a GentlemanD. Browne, T. Osborne, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, A. Millar, J. Buckland, J. Rivington, S. Crowder and Company W. Johnston, T. Longman, T. Lowdes, B. Law and Company T. Caslon, and G. Kearsly, 1762 |
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... OBSERVATIONS . Particularly fitted for the Perufal of fuch as defire to Travel over the ISLAND . By a GENTLEMAN . The SIXTH EDITION . With very great Additions , Improvements , and Corrections ; which bring it down to the End of the ...
... OBSERVATIONS . Particularly fitted for the Perufal of fuch as defire to Travel over the ISLAND . By a GENTLEMAN . The SIXTH EDITION . With very great Additions , Improvements , and Corrections ; which bring it down to the End of the ...
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... Observation may fuffice for what is needful to be said upon the fame Subject , when I come to fpeak of the Port of Sandwich , and its Members , and their Pri- vileges with respect to Rochester , Milton , Feverfham , & c . in my Circuit ...
... Observation may fuffice for what is needful to be said upon the fame Subject , when I come to fpeak of the Port of Sandwich , and its Members , and their Pri- vileges with respect to Rochester , Milton , Feverfham , & c . in my Circuit ...
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... observed in any other County of England , a Pocket of Wool ; which feems to have been at firft called fo in Mockery , this Pocket being fo big , that it loads a whole Waggon , and reaches beyond the most extreme Parts of it , hanging ...
... observed in any other County of England , a Pocket of Wool ; which feems to have been at firft called fo in Mockery , this Pocket being fo big , that it loads a whole Waggon , and reaches beyond the most extreme Parts of it , hanging ...
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... observe , in this Place , That the late Lord Viscount Townsend , having understood that the University , to fhew their Grati- tude , and do Honour to the Memory of his late Majesty King George I. intended to erect a Statue of that Mon ...
... observe , in this Place , That the late Lord Viscount Townsend , having understood that the University , to fhew their Grati- tude , and do Honour to the Memory of his late Majesty King George I. intended to erect a Statue of that Mon ...
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... , as I have already observed , p . 154. 177 . This Clothing - trade , however fmall , is yet very affifting to the Poor of this Part of the Country , where the the Lands , as I have noted , are but 222 Surry . ATOUR thro '
... , as I have already observed , p . 154. 177 . This Clothing - trade , however fmall , is yet very affifting to the Poor of this Part of the Country , where the the Lands , as I have noted , are but 222 Surry . ATOUR thro '
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Page 12 - we go to the uplands again and fetch another " ; so that marrying of wives was reckoned a kind of good farm to them.
Page 233 - Never, in all my life, left the country without regret, and always returned to it with joy. The fight of a mountain is to me more...
Page 22 - THIS INDENTURE made the twenty sixth day of June in the thirtieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c.
Page 190 - ... tis two or three years before it gets to Chatham ; for if once the rains come in, it stirs no more that year, and sometimes a whole summer is not dry enough to make the roads passable.
Page 93 - It is not to be wondered at, if the town of Cambridge cannot receive, or entertain the numbers of people that come to this fair; not Cambridge only, but all the towns round are full; nay, the very barns and stables are...
Page 9 - It is probably conjectured that the spat in twenty-four hours begins to have a shell. In the month of May, the dredgers (by the law of the Admiralty Court) have liberty to catch all manner of oysters, of what size soever.
Page 56 - Ipswich; but on the contrary if he was to view the city, either on a Sabbath-day, or on any public occasion, he would wonder where all the people could dwell, the multitude is so great.
Page 93 - ... and so many butchers and higglers from all the neighbouring counties come into the fair every morning with beef, mutton, fowls, butter, bread, cheese, eggs, and such things, and go with them from tent to tent, from door to door, that there is no want of any provisions of any kind, either dressed or undressed.
Page 9 - May it is felony to carry away the cultch, and punishable to take any other oysters, unless it be those of size (that is to say) about the bigness of an half-crown piece, or when, the two shells being shut, a fair shilling will rattle between them.
Page 392 - Water, descending, as it distills from the Sides of the rocky Passage: By the Fall of Water heard, farther in, it is probable there may be rocky Descents in the Passage: The Drippings from the Sides have worn the Passage, as far as it can be...