. 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 .. . g out of Ecton Hill, near Leek; and lead ore is dugin no other parts of the county. Here are alfo found the hse •matites or blood-ftones, alabafter, divers kinds of marble, quar-ry-ftones, mill-ftones, and grind-ftones, of feveral colours. The principal rivers of this county are the Trent, the Dove,the Thame, or Tame, and the Sow. Whence the Trent de-rives its name is not known : it
. 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 .. . g out of Ecton Hill, near Leek; and lead ore is dugin no other parts of the county. Here are alfo found the hse •matites or blood-ftones, alabafter, divers kinds of marble, quar-ry-ftones, mill-ftones, and grind-ftones, of feveral colours. The principal rivers of this county are the Trent, the Dove,the Thame, or Tame, and the Sow. Whence the Trent de-rives its name is not known : it is efteemed the third river inEngland, and rifes from two or three fprings in the north-weftpart of this county, near Leek ; it runs fouth -eaft, and dividingStaffordshire nearly into two equal parts, enters Derbyshire nearBurton upon the Trent; and running north-eaft, through thecounties of Derby* Nottingham, and Lincoln, falls into the riverH umber, north of Burton in Lincolnshire. The Dove rifes inDerbyshire, and feparates that county from StaiTordfhir-e. TheThame rifes in the fouth part of this county not far from Wol-verhampton, and runs fouth eaft into WarwickuYire, where, . ilM,:! .I;. \V, f $&: /■■ THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 239 directing its courfe noithward, it enters Staffbrdihire sgain nearTamwoith, and fails into the Trent a few miles north of Tarn-worth. The Sow riitrs nut far weftwarg of Newcaltle underLine, and running fouth-eaff, and paffing by the town of Staf-ford, falls into the Trent, about three miles eaft of lefs confiderable rtvers of this county are Wallal-Water,the Black Broo£, the Peuk, Ecclefbal-Water, the Chatnet, andthe Hamps. This county is divided into five hundieds, andcontains one city and eighteen market towns : it lies in the pro-vince of Canterbury and diocefe of Litchfield and Coventry,and has one hundred and fifty The principal manu-factures of this county are cloth, and iron utenfils, all kinds of
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