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and otSer (howy coloured cloths upon tlie tenters, 

 interfperl'ed with the trees and fields. This being 

 the center of the dyed-cloth manufafture, it may 

 be oblervcd, that all the cloths made in this dif- 

 tritt are woven white, dyed in the cloth, and fin- 

 i(hed for the market, by the great manufaftiirers. 

 (See Eradford, ll^Ht.) Stroud has now the ad- 

 vantage of a communication with the Severn by 

 a cana! which comes very near to it. 



Sudbury, (S.-if. E.) a good town on the north 

 bank of the River Stour, which has been made 

 navigable t-p to it, has thereby fome trade. 

 There arc manufadlures of perpetuanas, fays, 

 and other iluffs, 



Sunderland, (Dur. E.) formerly called New 

 Weremouth, fituated on a point of land formed 

 by the fea and the River Were, from being a 

 trifling village about 200 years ago, * has become 

 a large, liandfome, and profperous, town. Its prof- 

 perity fprings entirely from the neighbouring 

 coal mines, and the commodioufnefs of the port, 

 from which vedels can proceed to fea with the 

 northerly winds, which, though fair for the paf- 

 fage to London, fometimes lock up the veffels 

 lying loaded in the mouth of the Tine. The 

 convenience of fuel at hand encouraged the eflab- 

 lifhment of falt-works, and afterwards iron-works, 

 potteries, lime-works, glafs-houfes, and copperas 

 work?. Thus do the ufeful arts and induftry, 

 working upon natural advantages, create new 

 branches of beneficial employment. Sunderland, 

 with its dependent villages, contains about 20,000 

 people. It is next to Liverpool and NewcalHe 

 in quantity of (liipping, and has a very confider- 

 able foreign trade, and a prodigious trade in coals 

 and other coafting bufmefs. For the accommoda- 

 tion of the (hipping, as well as the inhabitants and 

 travelers, a bridge of caft iron has been erefled, 

 which is efteemed the moil capital fpecimen of 

 this lately-invented conflruftion of bridges. It 

 has only one arch, which is 236 feet wide in the 

 fpan, and 100 feet high above low water, admit- 

 ting veflels of confiderable burthen to pafs under 

 it with their topgallant malls (landing. Veflels 

 of great burthen and ^ccllent workmanfliip are 

 built here. 



The coals (hipped in the port of Sxinderland in 

 the year 1 799 were 



for London - - 75>-S^ chaldrons, 



other ports in Great Britain 223,338 

 foreign parts - - 4)039 



See Coal-works. 



SwALWELL, {Dur. E.) a village at the junc- 

 tion of the Dervs'ent with the Tine, has a great 

 manufafture of anchors, hoes, (hovel?, caft pots. 



kettles, &c. conduced by a company, who hare 

 a warehoufe in London, and another in Green- 

 wich, and have three veflels, conllantly running 

 with their goods to thofe warchoufes. 



SwANSEY, {G/ivu. JV.) a thriving town, fittiat- 

 ed on the River Tawey, which, with the flood- 

 tide, carries veflels of 200 tuns two miles above 

 the town, has a very confiderable trade in coal, 

 lime, iron, clay, and (lag-ilones, which are carried 

 to London, Briftol, Cornwall, and Ireland. There 

 are feven copper-works, an iron-foundery, a brafs- 

 houfe, a fpelter manufaflory, a pottery, two con- 

 fiderable breweries, fevtral yards for fliipbuilding, 

 and a wet and dry dock. As trade and manu- 

 fadlures beget more trade, the merchants of Swan- • 

 fey have lately extended their commerce to the 

 Baltic and the Wed Indies ; and it appears by 

 the cullom-houfe books, that their (hipping trade 

 has increafed to about five times the amount of 

 what it was about thirty years ago, an increafe of 

 profperity comparable to that of Liverpool. In 

 the fpirit of Liverpool, the merchants here have 

 erected piers for improving and deepening their 

 harbour, and the neighbouring country is im- 

 proved by a canal. In the year 1799 there 

 were (hipped here — for London 6 chaldrons of 

 coal, and to all other ports 139,486 chaldrons of 

 coal, 13,319 of ft;one coal, and 19,253 of culm. 



SwANWiCH, {Dorf. E.) a village in the ifle 

 of Purbeck, on a fmall bay, has fome trade in 

 (hipping Purbeck ftone for' London and other 

 places. 



Swindon, {Slqff\ E.) a hamlet in the parifli of 

 Himley, in which, and in the adjacent diftrirtj 

 wherever there is a fufficient water-faU, there is a 

 mill for manufafturing fcythes, reaping hooks or . 

 fickles, axes, &c. 



Tadcaster, {Tori, W. R.) a town on the 

 Werf, which is navigable for failing veflels to the 

 bridge, above which the river is barred by a mill 

 dam. The lirae-flone here is reckoned very good, 

 and is carried to York and other places. f 



Tallow, (IFat. I.) a town fituated on the Riv- 

 er Bride, a navigable branch of the Blackwater, 

 by means of which it has a thriving trade. . 



Tamwortu, {Sftiff'. and JVar. E.) an antient 

 town lying on both fides of the River Tame, 

 which has been noted for good ale, and a manu- 

 fadlure of narrow woolen cloth. . It is now diftin- 

 guiflied and animated by the extenfive works, 

 ellablilhed by Sir Robert Peel and Company here, 

 and in the adjacent village of Fazely, for carrj-- 

 ing on the cotton manufacture in every flage of its 

 progrefs, including fpinning, weaving, bleaching, 

 printing, &c. , The accidental difcovei-y of a fub- - 



• It has Leen fuppoftd. becaufe Camden fays nothing of Sun-lerland, that it did not exift in his time ; a niiHake part- 

 ly owing to the change of the name ; for the town has grown out of an epifcopal village, called Weremouth, and under 

 that name it received a charter from Hugh Pudfey, biiliop of Durham, I158-1194, who rcferved to hinifelf and his fuc- 

 ceilors the cuftoms of filh, as Brus had from his valfals at Hartlepool. How long it has been called Sunderland, I do noc- 

 at prefent know : but it appear?, under that name, as a village belide \^''eremouth in Camden's map of Durham. 



f Calcaria, the Roman name of this place, gives rcafon to telicv; that the quality of the lime was known '.0 thz 

 RomiUs, and probably an article of trade with them, i 



