APPENDIX, N«. IV. 



COMMERCI 



little harbour, at which tin is (hipped, and the 

 pilchard fifheiy is profecuted. 



Helmslev, [Tork, A'. R.) a fmall town on the 

 River Rye, with feme maiiufatlurcs of cotton and 

 linen. 



Hflston, (Corn. -E.) one of the coinage towns 

 for the ilannary, and has feme trade. Though 

 fituated at the head of a fine pool, it is inacceffible 

 by (hipping, the entry being entirely barred by 

 fand. 



Hemel Hempstead {Herf. E-) is reckoned 

 one of the greateft markets in England for corn. 

 Pome of the women find employment in making 

 lace, and ftraw plait for hats, both articles much 

 in demand. 



Henley, (O.v/". E.) an antient town on the 

 Thames, fends great quantities of corn, flour, and 

 malt, down the river to London. 



Hereford, an epifcopal city, the capital of 

 the (hire which bears its name, is fituated on 

 the River Wye, in the lieart of the cyder coun- 

 try, and fends great quantities of that liquor, and 

 alfo corn, oak timber, and oak bark, down the 

 river to Briftol. It has fcircely any manufactures 

 befides leather gloves. 



Hkrtford, a well-built town, the capital of 

 the (hire of the fame name, has great markets for 

 corn, malt, and wool, which are fent by the River 

 Lea to London. 



Hekham, (Korthumh. E.J a good town on the 

 fouth bank of the Tine, has fome tan-works, and 

 manufactures of (hoes and gloves. 



Heytsbury, (IVik. E.J an antient town, with 

 a flourilhing woolen manufafture. 



HiLLSBURGH, {Doivn, I.) a town fituated near 

 the canal between Lough Neagh and Belfaft, with 

 fome trade. 



HiNKLEY, (Le'ic. E.J a town with a fmall nian- 

 ufafture of (lockings. 



HrTCHAMj [Not/. E.) a maritime village on tlie 

 Wa(h, has a few ve(rels in the corn and malt 

 trade. 



HiTCHiN, {Hcit. E.) a confiderable town, in 

 the heart of a fine corn country, has a great trade 

 in corn and malt. 



Holy HE AC, (^«^. 7i^.) a fmall town at the 

 weft end of Anglefey, with a very improveable 

 harbour, which, being the neareft to Dublin, is 

 the ilation of the poll-office packets for that city. 

 The town derives its principal ftipport (rom the 

 expenditure of palTengers, and fome company at- 

 tradled to it in fummer by the convenience of fea- 

 bathitig. 



HoLYWEiL, ("Flint. W.J lately a poor village, 

 chiefly fupportcd by the refort of a few Roman- 

 catholics to the well, from which it ha» its name. 

 It is now a populous town, enlivened by the man- 

 iifailures of iron wire, brafs, brafs wire, plate 

 brafs, copper (heets for the bottoms of (hips, nails 

 of all fizes, bolts, and other works for (hipping, 

 whicli ufedtobemade of iron before copper (hcathing 

 was introduced. All thefe works are viry extenf- 

 ivc. But on a much larger fcal« are the cotton 



works, C3rr'ed on In feveral mafTy buildings by the 

 CotUn-invil} cnmpany, wherein a great number of 

 boys and girls are employed, whofe comfortable 

 fubfiilence, and education, are carefully and hu- 

 manely attended to by their employers. All the 

 machinery employed in the numerous works of this 

 place is fet in motion by ihe water of the Holy- 

 well, which burfts out at once a ver)' refpetlablo 

 ftream, and, though it does not now perform any 

 fupernatural miracles, is wonderfully ufeful in turn- 

 ing eleven great wheels in its (hort courfe of one 

 mile. The country adjacent to Holywell is a bed 

 of mines of lead, copper, cabmine, black jack or 

 tutaneg, and lime, together wilh coal, which gives 

 value to all the others. 



HoNiTON, [^Dev. E.) a good town, has a man- 

 ufacture of lace, and fends great quantities of 

 butter to London. 



Hornby^ (Lan. £.) a fmall town with a man- 

 ufadlure of cottoi.. 



Horsham, (Sii/. £.) a confiderable town, haa 

 a quarry of flag (lone, fit for paving, and alfo ufed 

 for roofs. 



Houston, (Renf. S.J a thriving village with 

 confiderable manufafturss of lawn, and alfo muflin, 

 and other cotton goods. 



HtJDDERSFiELD, (Tori, W. R.) a profperous 

 town, and a great market for yard-wide woolen 

 cloths, from lod to 8/" per yard, which are made 

 in the country to the welhvard of it as far as Black- 

 ftone edge, the boundary of York-(lrire, and fome 

 even in the adjacent parts of Lancaihire. The 

 buyers and fellers of cloth ufed to meet in an open 

 fquare till about the year 1765. They have fince 

 had a very commodious hall, which forms a large 

 circle, with a diametrical range dividing the inter- 

 ior part into two femicircles. It is fabdivided in- 

 to ranges refembling ftreets : and the benches, or 

 (lalls, are generally filled with cloths, lying clofe 

 together upon edge, with the bofom up for infpec- 

 tion. Here a great deal of bufinefs is done in very 

 little time ; for at half after twelve every body 13 

 obliged to leave the hall. The inhabitants of this 

 town and neighbourhood have alfo taken up the 

 manufacture of broad cloths, which are made as 

 fine as thofe of the vi'eft of England, together with 

 kerfeymeres, ferges, and tome other woolen fabrics. 



Hull, (Tori> E. R.) called alfo Kingfton upon 

 Hudl, as being fituated at the junClion of that river 

 with the Humber, is a large antient town (fee f^. 

 i, //. 358, 462) and a county of itfelf. It lias a 

 very great trade, being the center of a moll extenf- 

 ive inland navigfation throutrh all the fertile and 

 opulent manutadluring diltritls, watered by the 

 many navigable rivers which unite in the branch of 

 the fea called the Humber. Befides a great inland 

 and coalling trade, Hull has very extenfive and in- 

 creafing commerce with the continent of Europe 

 and America, and is largely concerned in the Green- 

 land fiihery. In quantity of fliipping this port 

 ranks as the fifth in England, being i;ext to Sun- 

 derland, (he river being foimd -oo confined for 

 accommodating the (hipping, a dock has been dug 



