. 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 .. . ound with rich veins of copper, as they do alfo in Der-went Fells, particularly at Newland, a village near Kefwick^where it is was once found a mixture of gold and fil-ver. In this county there are alfo mines of coals^ lead, lapi3calaminaries, and black lead, a mineral, found no where elfe,called by the inhabitants wadd. The wadd mines lie chiefly inand about Derwent Fells
. 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 .. . ound with rich veins of copper, as they do alfo in Der-went Fells, particularly at Newland, a village near Kefwick^where it is was once found a mixture of gold and fil-ver. In this county there are alfo mines of coals^ lead, lapi3calaminaries, and black lead, a mineral, found no where elfe,called by the inhabitants wadd. The wadd mines lie chiefly inand about Derwent Fells, where this mineral may be dug up irtany quantity. • Cumberland abounds with rivers and large bodies of water,which the inhabitants call meres :, of the river3 the Derwent isthe chief. It rifts in Borrodale, a large valley fouth of Kef-wick, and running along the hills, called Derwent Fells, formsa large lake in which are three fmall iflands, and at the northfide of which ftands the town of Kefwick; thence the Derwentruns through the middle of the county, and palling by Cocker-mouth, falls into the Irifh fea, near a fmall market town calledWorkington. The Edeo, another confiderable river in this county,. 1 * ^ ,^ i {$$&£.■*& &m
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