A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain: Divided Into Circuits Or Journies. Containing, I. A Description of the Principal Cities ... By a Gentleman

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D. 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, 1761

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Page 73 - Water-wheel goes round, which is three times in one Minute, and 318,504,960 Yards in one Day and Night. One Water-wheel gives Motion to all the reft of the Wheels and Movements, of which any one may be ftopt feparately.
Page 118 - Orders, with Patterns sealed on them, in their Hands ; the Colours of which they match, by holding them to the Cloths they think they agree to. When they have pitched upon their Cloth, they lean over to the Clothier, and, by a Whisper, in the fewest Words imaginable, the Price is stated ; one asks, the other bids ; and they agree or disagree in a Moment.
Page 118 - If a merchant has bidden a clothier a price, and he will not take it, he may go after him to his house, and tell him he has considered of it, and is willing to let him have it; but they are not to make any new agreement for it, so as to remove the market from the street to the merchant's house.
Page 218 - Country away ; so, on the contrary, when in this Country we see the prodigious heaps, I might say Mountains, of Coals, which are dug up at every Pit, and how many of those Pits there are ; we are filled with equal Wonder to consider where the People should live, that can consume them.
Page 260 - Derbjjhve, which I have alfo feen. It is on the Middle of a large Common, and we are led to it by a Brook, near as big as the New River ; which, after turning a CornMill juft at the...
Page 191 - On the right side of the altar-place stands the freed stool, mentioned by our author, made of one entire stone, and said to have been removed from Dunbar in Scotland, with a well of water behind it. At the upper end of the body of the church, next the choir, hangs an antient table with the picture of St. John (from whom the church is named) and of King Athelstan the founder of it, and between them this distich: Als free make I thee, As heart can wish, or egh can see.
Page 118 - The merchants and buyers generally walk down and up twice on each side of the rows, and in little more than an hour all the business is done; in less than half an hour you will perceive the...
Page 118 - Buyers generally walk up and down twice on each Side of the Rows, and in little more than an Hour all the Business is done.
Page 118 - Cloth, as close to one another as the Pieces can lie longways, each Proprietor standing behind his own Piece, who form a Mercantile Regiment, as it were, drawn up in a double Line, in as great Order as a Military one. As soon as the Bell has...
Page 260 - Derbyihire, which I have alfo feen. It is on the middle of a large common, and we are led to it by a brook, near as big as the New River, which, after turning a corn-mill...

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