APPENDIX, NO IV. 



COMMERC 



Saltfleet, (Line. E.) a fmall town with a 

 harbour, and a httle coalling trade. 



Salt-works, {Chef. £.) Northwich is the chief 

 of the fait towns ; and it alone poflelles mineg of 

 rock fait, which are from 28 to 48 yards beneath 

 the furface, in addition to the fait fprings, which 

 it has in common with fcveral other places, called 

 iviches in this part of the country. The minei, of 

 rocii fait were difcovered about a century ago. 

 There are delivered from the pits above 60,000 

 tuns annually, of which there are exported to 

 the continent, chiefly the Baltic and the Nether- 

 lands - - 45,000 to 50,000 

 to Ireland - - 3,000 to 4,000. 

 There are refined in England — at 



Northwich - 5,000 



Frodlham - 3,000 



Liverpool - 3,000 



Dungeon works 2,500 



The fait is conveyed to Liverpool by inland navi- 

 gation, and affords a great accommodation to the 

 inipping as a profitable ballaft, befides being a 

 prefervative of the timber. 



The quantity of fait annually made from the 

 fprings in Chelhire is eftimated as follows. 

 At Northwich 45,000 tuns. 



Lawton 1,500 



Middlewich 4,000 

 Winsford 15,000 



' Namptwich 60 



Total 



65,560 



Sandwich, {Kent, E.) one of theCinque ports, 

 and formerly a place of great importance, but now 

 in a great meafure ruined by the retreat of the 

 fea, has ftill a few vefTels which fail to the Baltic, 

 and fome coafting trade. The only article made 

 here, worth mentioning, is malt. 



Sanquhar, {Dun/. S.) a town on the Nith, 

 formerly noted for a particular kind of knitted 

 worfted ftockings, the demand for which has fallen 

 off fince the American war. Some carpets, ferges, 

 flannels, and other woolen Huffs, are made here ; 

 and there is an iron plating forge near the town. 

 Sanquhar, furrcunded by (heep, coal, and ftreams 

 of water, is well fituated for a confiderable woolen 

 raanufafture. 



ScARBURGH, {}'oii, N. R-) a thriving town, 

 fituated on the fteep Hope of a hill, has a harbour 

 quite dry at low water, proteiJled from the north 

 winds by a lofty peninfular rock, or fear, on 

 which is placed a caltle. The harbour is the beft 

 of the few on the coaft of York-fhire ; and a good 

 deal of bnfinefs is done here in the foreign, coaft- 

 ing, and coal, trades. Many vcffels are built 

 here ; and there is a manufacture of fail-cloth. 

 The herring fifiiery gives employment to many 

 hands :n the fcafon ; and there is abundance of 

 cod, mackerel, tiirbot, lobfters, &c. A great deal 

 of money is circulated in the place every fummer 

 by ftrangcrs, attracted by a medicinal "well, the 



conveniei'.ce of fea bathing, for which the fmooth 

 fand ai.d regular flope of the beach are exceeding, 

 ly well adapted, the amufements provided for 

 them, and the falhion of frequenting fuch places. 



SciLLY. See SiLLEY. 



Seaford, {S/i//'. E.) one of the Cinque ports, 

 now reduced to a fmall iifhing town, which, how- 

 ever, has houfes built with Hone and covered with 

 fiate. 



Seaton, {Dev. E.) a fmall town at the mouth 

 of the Ax, had once a harbour, now choked up 

 with fand. 



Seaton DELAVAL,or Seaton sluice, {North' 

 urn/}. E.) a village with a harbour, formed at the 

 mouth of a brook by the indulhy and fpirit of 

 Admiral Sir Ralph Delaval, capable of receiving 

 fmall veffels, which take in coal, the only merch- 

 andize of the place. Larger veffels load lying at 

 anchor off the harbouT. 



Sedgeley, {Slajf. E.) a large village with a 

 very confiderable manufafture of ironmongery 

 goods, moftly agricultural utenfils. 



Selbv, {Tori, IV. R.) an improving town on 

 the weft fide of the Oufe, about 15 miles below 

 York, has fome veffels of good burthen, which 

 trade to London, &c. 



Selkirk, the capital of a fliire of the fame 

 name, has a manufadture of tape and other inkle 

 ware, and no other trade worth notice, unlefs 

 fpinning wool for the nianufafturers of England 

 may be called a trade. The fpirit of induftry is- 

 repreffed by eleftioneering politics, and a poor's 

 rate, the later of which is an evil very uncommon 

 in Scotland. 



Sevenoaks, {Kent, E.) an inland town with 

 fome mills for throwing filk. 



Shaftsbury, {Dorf. E.) a fmall town with 

 good ftone houfes, has a manufaiSlure of ftiirt but- 

 tons, wherein about ;,2co people, young and old 

 of both fexes, are employed. 



Sheerness, {Kent, E.) z fort on the north- 

 eaft point of Shepey, commanding the entrance of 

 the River Medway, wherein many ftiips of war 

 are ufually laid up. There is a dock-yard here 

 for building frigates, under the iufpedlion of the 

 commiflioner at Chatham. 



Sheffield, {fori, W. R.) a large and popu- 

 lous town, the inhabitants being eftimated at 

 30,000, whofe induftry is chiefly exerted in the 

 manufafture of cutlery ware, for which it has 

 been famous at leaft as early as the age of Chau- 

 cer, and in plated goods, this town being the 

 center of thefe manufadtures, which are fpread 

 over all the adjacent country. Every cutler con- 

 fines himfelf to one branch of the manufadure, 

 which, together with the ftamp mark put on 

 his goods, is expreffed on his fign : thus one pro- 

 feffes making table-knives ; another, pen-knives ; 

 another, rafors ; one makes tailor's and gardener's 

 fciffors ; another, fine fciffors, &c. There are 

 alfo makers of iiles, buckles, &c. fubdivided ac- 

 cording to the nature of their goods. The neigh- 



