A

TOUR

Thro' the Whole ISLAND of

GREAT BRITAIN.

Divided into

CIRCUITS or JOURNEYS.

GIVING

A Particular and Entertaining AcCOUNT of

whatever is Curious and worth Obfervation;

1. A DESCRIPTION of the Prin-

cipal Cities and Towns, their

Situation, Government, and

Commerce.

II. The Customs, Manners, Exer-

cifes, Diverfions, and Employ.

ment of the People.

III. The Produce and Improve-

ment of the Lands, the Trade,

and Manufactures.

VIZ.

IV. The Sea Ports and Fortifi-

cations, the Courfe of Rivers,

and the Inland Navigation.

V. The Public Edifices, Seats

and Palaces of the NOBILITY

and GENTRY...

VI. The Ifles of Wight, Port-

land, Jersey, Guernsey, and the

other English and Scotifh Illes

of most Note.

Interfperfed with Useful OBSERVATION3.

Particularly fitted for the Perufal of fuch as defire to

Travel over the ISLAND.

By a GENTLEMAN..

The FOURTH EDITION.

With very great Additions, Improvements, and Corrections; which

bring it down to the Year 1748.

In FOUR VOLUME S.

With a Copious INDEX to each Volume..

Printed for S. BIRT, T. OSBORNE, D. BROWNE, J. HODGES,,

J. OSBORN, A. MILLAR, and J. ROBINSON.

M.DCC.XLVIII.

CONTENTS

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VOLUME II.

LETTER I.

A Defcription of the North Shores of the
Counties of Cornwall and Devon, and fome

Parts of Somersetshire, Wiltshire, Dorfet-

fhire, Gloucefterfhire, Buckinghamshire, and

Berkshire
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LETTER II.

A Defcription of the City of London, as taking

in the City of Weftminster, Borough of South-

wark, and the Buildings circumjacent

LETTER III.

90

A Defcription of Part of Middlefex, and of

the whole County of Hertford

155

LET.

LETTER IV. -

A Defcription of Part of Buckinghamshire, of

the County of Oxford, and Part of Wilts

LETTER V.

214

A Defcription of Part of the Counties of So-

merset, Gloucefter, Warwick, Worcester,

Hereford, and Monmouth

LETTER VI.

286

A Defcription of the greatest Part of the Princi-

pality of Wales

357

A Defcription of Part of Cheshire, Northamp-

tonfhire, and Leicefterfhire

380

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Thro' the ISLAND Of

GREAT BRITAIN.

Containing a DESCRIPTION of the North Shores of the Counties of Cornwall and Devon, and fome Parts of Somersetshire, Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Gloucestershire, Buckinghamshire, and Berkshire.

SIR,

NOW turned about to the Eaft; and as, when I went Weft, I kept to the Southern Coaft of this long County of Cornwall, and of Devonshire also, so, in going Eaft, I fhall keep the North Shore. The firft Place of any Note, we came to, was St. Ives, a pretty good Town, and grown rich by the Fifhing Trade. It is fituated on the Weft-fide of a deep Bay, called St. Ives-bay, from VOL. II.

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