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Title: 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 ..
Year: 1776 (1770s)
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Subjects: Historic buildings
Publisher: London: : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by J. Towers, and by R. Baldwin
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Hi for the pre-bends. Here is a free-febc. wife. The parifh-. Hands, which is aifo called St. German:. : in compaf;, andGDC It is fuppofed to include more Icrdlhips, than any other parifh in Elar.:. Bj arc has a Caf:!e called St. Man - .:::_ built for mtfa haven. The caftle has a governor, a -. a platform of guns j but the . of St. Juft, without c • pra meeting-boufe. It confifts but of one Bret - a hill and fror fea, The in- g ; yet they lend two members St. Mic a from London, is governed by a - die chief inhabi-tant*, out cf fix chief tenants, who are all deputy lords ofthe n a nor, becaufe they hold lands -.,2. It is now a ■scan r: Newland and lore; and jugh, has no market. It confifts of but a few>, who have neither trade nor pri-ze, but tha -liament.5/. MichceC; Mount, in the corner of .Mounts Bay, is apretty high rock, only divided by the tide from the main land,that it is land and lfland twice a day. At the bottom of thistnountj in digging for tin. (Ik fpear-fces battle-
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THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 389 battle axes, and fwords of brafs, all wrapt up in linen. Thecoaft is contracted here into a fort of ifthmus; fothat it is fcarcelyfour miles between the channel and the Severn (ea. There havebeen large trees driven in by the fea, between this mount andPenzance. At the foot of the mount, is a noble and capacious1pier or mole, where great numbers of (hips may be cleared andrefitted. Padstow, 243 miles from London, is a corporation, go-verned by a mayor and other officers, and is fituated on the ri-ver Camel, in the Briftol channel: the harbour is the beft in thenorth part of the county, and capable of receiving many (hips ofgreat burden, but it cannot be entered without danger, exceptby a very fkilful pilot, as there are rocks on the eaif fide, andbanks of (and on the weft. The principal trade of this place isin flate tiles, and in the herring fifhery. From this place to St.Ives, is a very pleafant and fruitful coufitry, with hills, pro-ducing tin, copper, a

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