APPENDIX, N^. IV. 



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means whereof it has a confiderable trade in for- 

 warding the corn of tlie adjacent plentiful country- 

 down to Lynne for exportation, and in fupplying 

 the neighbourhood with neceflaries brought up 

 from tliat port. The wheat of Bedford-fhire is 

 particularly efteemed. 



!'EiTH, (Ayr, S ) Tcci induftrious ■ llage where 

 filk auzes are woven, thread is thrown, and cot- 

 ton is fpun and made into muflin, and the muflin 

 tamboured ; all for account of employersin Pafley. 



Belfast, (Ant. I.) a large town, containing 

 above 18,000 people, fituated at the head of a 

 hay, called the Lough of Eelfaft. It has fome 

 foieign trade, and enjoys m communication with 

 Lough Neacrh and the inland country around it 

 by the River Lagan and a canal. Befides linen, 

 the great ftaple of Antrim and the adjacent coun 

 ties, there are maniifaftures of cambric, fail-cloth, 

 cotton goods, glafs earthen ware, and fugar. The 

 exports confift of corn, flour, beef, pork, butter, 

 and linen, in which lad' article it 's next to Dubhn. 



Bhnburb, (Tyr. /.) a village on the Black- 

 water, witli a fhare of the linen trade. 



Berkley, (GIouc. E.) a town fituated near the 

 mouth of a fmall river, called the Little Avon, 

 which makes a harbour for a few fmall veflels. 

 The beft Gloucefter cheefe is made in the neigh- 

 bourhood, all the farms being in pafture for cows. 



Bernard castle, (Dur. E.) a town on the 

 River Tees, which once had a good woolen man- 

 ufafture, now much decline!. 



Bersham, (Deiib. IV.) the feat of the great 

 iron-works conduced by Meflieurs John and Wil- 

 liam Wilkinfon. They make cylinders for fire 

 engines, water pipes, boilers, pots and pans, 

 fmoothing irons, and cannon of all fizes, which 

 are caft folid and bored, as at the Carron works. 

 There are alfo forges for malleable iron, and wire 

 works, and of late a fonndery ot i.rafs, and a work 

 for carting pipes o' lead, tlie ore of which is plen- 

 tiful in the neighbourhood, as are alfo iron ftone 

 and coal. — Mr. John Wilkinfon, the principal 

 partner in this great bufinefs, has alfo e.xtenfive 

 iron-works in Shropihire *. 



Besvie, or Inverbervie, (Kirk. S.) a fmall 

 town at the mouth of the River Bervie, m which, 

 however, no veflel can lie by reaion (>f the heavy 

 fwell rolling in. There is a faimon fifhery. The 

 chief nianufa£lure is coloured thread, for which the 

 yarn is fpun by machinery. A manufafture ^t fail 

 cloth, formerly given up, has been revived. 



Berwitk, a town fituated on the north fide of 

 the mouth of the Tweed, which, together with a 

 Iniall diftriiS, is exempted from the jurifdidion of 

 the three afijacent counties of Berwick (whereof 

 it was once the capital), Durham, and Northum- 

 berland. But Berwick is not reckoned a county 

 of itfelf, though the magiftrates, in a body, exer- 

 cil'e the funftions of a ihirref. There are fome 

 manufadtures, but moftly new eftablifhments, and 



not as yet very extenfive. The faimon fiflier , for 

 wliich th iver has long been fa.mec, (fee V. i, p. 

 446) is the chief I'pring of the trad'-, of the town. 

 Formerly the fidi were ca ied by land to New- 

 caftle, and there cured and (hipped for ..o idon, 

 where they ar. t this day called Xewciftle falinon. 

 About th middle f the eighteenth century efT Is 

 from Harwich, fitted with wells, ul'ed ' carry live 

 falm >n fro 1 Berwick to the London nnrket. 

 The people of Berwick afterwards took th trade 

 into their own hands. Their vefFcls are fail; failers, 

 ftout. well found and well manned, fo that they 

 run in almoit all weathers, and are lemarkiible for 

 making quick paflages The excellent invention 

 of carrying fidi in pulverized ice eiia led ihen-. to 

 extend their trade very much ; and tiieir difpuch 

 has obtained a decided preference in cirrj'ing goods 

 and p-fTengers, winch has lately encuraged l hem 

 to extend their coafting trade to the riah of Forth, 

 wherein they are f ccefsful co;'->peLitors with the 

 coafters of Leitli and the other ports of the Forth. 

 Corn and eggs are the moft: ^ mliderable of the 

 lubordinate articles carried from Berwick. The 

 foreign trade, which is not extenfive, confifts chief- 

 y In importing from the Baltic the wood, iron. 

 Sec. wanted for the conftruftion of houfes and 

 veflels. 



Beverley, I'Tork. E. R.) a handfome town 

 near the River Hull, by which, with the help of 

 a (hort canal, there is a convenient intercourfe with 

 the town of Hull for the conveyance of coal, corn, 

 malt, &c. I'he principal employments of the 

 people are tanning, making meal and malt, and 

 working bone lace. 



Bewdly, 'Wore. E.J a populous town on the 

 weft fide of the noble navigable River Severn, by 

 means of which it has a carrying trade for a great 

 extent of country. Many of the inhabitants are 

 employed in tanning, making a variety of articles 

 of horn, and making Monmouth, or Dutch, caps. 



Bicester, i'0.vf E.J a town noted for its ale, 

 and making leather flippers. 



BiDDEFORD, , Dev. E.J 3 handfome, populous, 

 town, fituated on the River Towridge, which car- 

 ries fiiips up to the town, and boats up into the in- 

 land country. Though the trade with America, 

 and the filhlng trade to iSi^cwfoundland, have de- 

 clined in this port, there are ftill more Ihipping 

 belonging to it than any other harbour between 

 Brillol and Falmouth. Great quantities of oak 

 bark are Ihipped for Scotland and Ireland. Many 

 veflels are built for this and other ports. 



Biggleswade, (Bed. E J z town fituated on 

 the Ivel, a branch of the Oufe, by means of which 

 coal, timber, &c. are brought up in boats from 

 Lynne for the fupply of tlic adjacent country. 

 The town being furrounded by a very fertile coun- 

 tr)', great quantities of corn aie fold at its markets. 

 Many of the women are employed in making lace. 



Bilston. See Wolverhampton. 



* For the iron barges nude by this gentleman, and the prodigious order fent to him from Paris for iron pipei foon 

 i;;cr the peace, fee V. iv, pp. 176,178. 4 



