. 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 .. . French Pafte was invented, were prized for theirluftre, which came nearer to that of a diamond than any thingthen known. About half a mile between the Severn and Briftol, there is apit in a rock, whence lead ore was formerly dug, called PenPark Hole ; the defcent is narrow, in form of a tunnel, beingabout two yards wide, and nearly forty deep; having pafledthrough the rock, it opens
. 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 .. . French Pafte was invented, were prized for theirluftre, which came nearer to that of a diamond than any thingthen known. About half a mile between the Severn and Briftol, there is apit in a rock, whence lead ore was formerly dug, called PenPark Hole ; the defcent is narrow, in form of a tunnel, beingabout two yards wide, and nearly forty deep; having pafledthrough the rock, it opens into a cave feventy-five yards long,forty-one broad, and nineteen high. In this cave there is apool of fwect water, twenty-feven yards long, twelve broad,and five and a h;if deep. The foreft of King/wood, near Briftol, contains about 500acres, confifting of coal-mines. The houfes here are verycompact, as in a market town ; and the cloth manufacture hasmade^it pretty populous. On the edge of this foreft, near thebank of the Avon, about a mile from Briftol, are the famousworks for fmelung copper. At Woodchefter^ a village near Stanley Leonard, a curiousRoman pavement of mofaic work was difcovered in the year. I n THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 281 year 1772. It is of a confiderable extent, and reprefents birdsand beafts in the natural colours, befides a variety of other de-vices beautifully executed j and at Cromhall> a village betweenWickware and Thornbury, was found not long ago anotherpavement of the fame kind, eighteen feet and a half long, andnear fifteen feet and a half broad, compofed of cubical ftones,of beautiful colours, ftrongly cemented. Beverjlone Caftle^ about a mile north-eaft of Tetbury, wasbuilt in the reign of Edward the Third, by Thomas earl of Beike-ley, out of the ranfom of the prifoners he took at the battle ofPoi&iers, under the Black Prince. At Thornbury are ftill to be feen the foundations of a magni-ficent caftle, begun, but never finiftied, by Edward, duke
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