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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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ed with coal from Kingfwood and Mend ip-hills, fomefor gla.fles and others for bottles, for which there is a great de-mand at the hot well in the neighbourhood, and at the bath forexporting their mineral waters, &c. Briftol has the moft confi-derable trade of any port in the Britifh dominions, except Lon-don. Its merchants were the firft adventurers to the Weft In-dies j and it wascomputed near half a century ago, that thetrade of this city employed no lefs than 2O00 fail of (hips. Ithas a very great trade .to the Weft Indies, fifty Weft India (hipshaving frequently arrived here at once. It has alfo a confider-able trade to Guinea, Holland, Hamburgh, and Norway ; anda principal branch of its commerce is that with Ireland ; fromwhence tallow, linen, woollen, and bay-yarn, are imported inyaft quantities. Its trade to the Streights is alfo very confiderablt,and is has acquired the whole trade of South Wales, and thegreateft part of the trade of North W ales, by the conveniency of the
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S3 <s. A. IfIV K Pi fc i !v -&.v . v THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 31? the Severn and the Wye. Alfo the fhop-keepers here, who aregenerally whokfale dealers, lend goods by land carriage to Exe-ter, Bath, Wales, Froome, and all the principal towns fromSouthampton, even to the banks of the Trent. On the north-weft fide of the city is Brandon-hill, where the laundrefles drytheir linen, tor which purpofe it is faid it was granted to the cityby queen Elizabeth. BATH is 107 miles from London. This city took its namefrom fome natural hot baths, for the medicinal virtues of whichthis place has been long celebrated and much frequented. Thiscity was famous among the Romans for its medicinal waters.Upon the fpot where the cathedral church now (rands, a templeis faid to have formerly been dedicated to Minerva, who was thetutelar deity of thofe fprings, and from thence the ancient Bri-tons called this city Caer Palladur, i. e. the city of the water ofPallas. It was afterwards called by the Saxon

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