. The earth and its inhabitants ... y, Atlas Maritimus et Commerciulis. 116 THE BRITISH ISLES. city in ashes, bear witness to the rouglincss of the Bristol moh.* The importsinclude tobacco and raw sugar from the West and East Indies and America,timber from Norway and Canada, corn from Russia, spirits, and wine. The exportsconsist principally of the manufactures of the town, such as refined sugar, tobaccoand cigars, metal-ware, soap, oil-cloth, machinerj^ and glass ; for though Bristoldoes not hold the first place in any single branch of manufacturing industry, it isat all events distinguished
. The earth and its inhabitants ... y, Atlas Maritimus et Commerciulis. 116 THE BRITISH ISLES. city in ashes, bear witness to the rouglincss of the Bristol moh.* The importsinclude tobacco and raw sugar from the West and East Indies and America,timber from Norway and Canada, corn from Russia, spirits, and wine. The exportsconsist principally of the manufactures of the town, such as refined sugar, tobaccoand cigars, metal-ware, soap, oil-cloth, machinerj^ and glass ; for though Bristoldoes not hold the first place in any single branch of manufacturing industry, it isat all events distinguished for the variety of its productions. The coal seamswhich underlie the basin of the Avon are not very thick, but they supply the manu-factories of the town with excellent fuel. The manufacture of cloth, introduced byFlemish weavers in the reign of Edward III., is no longer carried on by Bristol,but has been transferred to the Gloucestershire towns to the north-east of it. Fig. 65.—Bristol and 1 : ,000. / „ :\\„#^. Èië^H^^i. t^/->4^ .^t4.^^#:„.,w^^l 240 WoPGr 220 .2 Miles. Bristol proper rises on hilly ground to the north of the Avon, and, like Rome,is supposed to have been built upon seven hills. The suburbs, however, spread farbeyond the ancient limits of the city. Bedminster, to the south, in the county ofSomerset, now forms part of it ; villas are scattered over the heights which separateit from Horhury and Westhunj-on- Tri/m, in the north ; whilst in the west it hascoalesced with Clifton, which in the last century was a pretty village where themerchants of Bristol sought repose from their labours. The airy heights whichwere at that time dotted over with a few detached villas are now covered with orna-mental buildings and rows of terraces, stretching round Durdham Downs, andcrowning the bold cliffs which here bound the narrow gorge of the Avon. Since1864 this gorge has been spanned by a suspension bridge, at a height of 287 feet ?^ Mobcrley, Geograp
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