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deep falls of fnovv, and long continued rains, which 

 are fo injurious to farmers in the vicinity of mountain- 

 ous regions ; and as the feafons change gradually, the 

 health of the inhabitants is little affedted by them, 

 and the operations of hufbandry are leldom long or 

 unexpedledly fufpended by the inclemency of the 

 weather. 



Rivers and Waters. — There are perhaps few di- 

 ftridls better fupplied with water tlian this, while 

 the inconveniencies which fo often happen from en- 

 joying that advantage, are here felt but in a very in- 

 conliderable degree. In almoft every part, it a- 

 bounds with fine fprings, which being very plenti- 

 ful in the upper part of the county, form numerous 

 fmall brooks and rivulets, feveral of which uniting 

 in their courfe towards the fea, at length become 

 navigable rivers. 



There are five rivers which take their rife in this 

 county, the Nen, Welland, Oufe, Learn, and Char- 

 •well ; and what is very remarkable, confidering the 

 different courfes which they take, the fources of the 

 former and of the two latter are faid to fpring out 

 of one hill, near Catefby and Hellidon, in the hun- 

 dred of Fawfley. 



The Charwell, after running for feveral miles a- 

 long the weftern boundary of this county, enters 

 Oxfordfliire, and joins the Thames at the city of Ox- 

 ford. 



The Leam joins the leffer Avon near Warwick, , 

 and afterwards joining the Severn, falls into the 

 weftern ocean. 



The Nen is the moft confiderable of thefe rivers. , 

 After taking its rife, as above mentioned, it is 

 quickly joined by a number of orher fmall ftreams 

 and brooks in the vicinity of Daventry, and con- 

 tinues its courfe from thence to Northampton, 

 where it becomes navigable, and forms a confider- 

 able . 



