. A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries,
. A description of England and Wales, containing a particular account of each county, with its antiquities, curiosities, situation, figure, extent, climate, rivers, lakes, mineral waters, soils, fossils, caverns, plants and minerals, agriculture, civil and ecclesiastical divisions, cities, towns, palaces, seats, corporations, markets, fairs, manufactures, trade, sieges, battles, and the lives of the illustrious men each county has produced : embellished with two hundred and forty copper plates, of palaces, castles, cathedrals, the ruins of Roman and Saxon buildings, and of abbeys, monasteries, and other religious houses, besides a variety of cuts of urns, inscriptions, and other antiquities .. . s feated under a high hill, onthe top of which is a rftilitar/ camp, furroundedwith a large trench. Here is an extenfive prof-pe(5l all round the country; and here was a beacon,which when fet on fire, gave notice to all theneighbouring parts of the approach of an enemy. Seven miles to the north of Bafingftoke is Syl-CHESTER, which is fituatcd in a fine open coun-try, about ten miles from Reading, and twelvefrom Newbury. This is only a hamlet, confift-ing of one farm-houfe and a church ; but wasformerly a large and populous city, as appearsfrom the veftiges of its ancient grandeur, the re-mains of the celebrated Vindoma, or Vindonumof the Romans, and the Caer Segont of the Bri--tons. The walls are ftill, in many places, almoft-entire, and in feme parts near twenty feet high,havino; various kinds of trees of fuch confideru-ble bulk, growing out of them, that within twen-ty yccirs it is faid there have been cut from themlicar a thoufand pounds worth of timber. Thefe walls ,^.. HAMPSHIRE. iQSxvalls are chiefly built with flints, tho iron-ftone^and others, are frequently intermixed with them ;and at the diftancc of about every two feet is a(Iratum or layer of broad flag-fl-ones, which wereprobably intended to prevent the flint arid otherfmall flones from falling, when
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