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harbour, have been removed to Pcole. Tobacco- 

 pipe clay is now the eliief article of the trade of 

 the place. 



War K WORTH, (Northuml. E.) a fmall town at 

 the mouth of the Coquet, the inhabitants of which 

 are ciiiefly employed in catching and curing fal- 

 nion, of which there is great plenty in the river. 



Warminster, (WUt. E.J a confidcrable town 

 with a good woolen manufafture, and a great trade 

 in wool, corn, and malt. 



Warmley, (Glouc. E.) a village near Brillol, 

 has large copper works. 



Warrington, (Lan. E.J a confiderable town 

 on tiie River Merfea, has manufaftures of hucka- 

 buck table linen, fail-cloth, glafs, pins, and fome 

 cotton goods, and is noted for tlie goodncfs of its 

 mall and ale. 



Warwick, (Cumh. E.J a village on the River 

 Eden, has works for fpinning cotton. 



Warwick, the capital of the (liire of the fame 

 name, is a populous and handfome town of ftone 

 houfes, fituated on the Rivtr Avon. The chief 

 trade of the place has been making malt, to which 

 fome cotton works have lately been added. 



Watchet, (Som. E.J a town with a fmall 

 iiarbour, has fome veflels employed in carrying 

 alabafter, lime of an excellent quality, and kelp, 

 and in bringing coal. Some falmon are caught 

 here ; and the herring fifneiy is attended in its 

 feafon. 



Waterford, the capital of the county of the 

 fame name in the fouth-eaft part of Ireland, is a 

 large and flourifting town, with about 35,000 in- 

 habitants, fituated on the fouth fide of the River 

 Suir, a few miles above its junction with the Bar- 

 row, below which there is a fpacious tftuary, call- 

 ed Waterford harbour. Veflels of good burthen 

 can lie at the quay, which runs along the whole 

 length of the town ; but the largeft veflels lie a 

 few miles lower. Waterford is next to Cork m 

 the export of provlfions, and rivals Drogheda in 

 the export of corn, flour, &c. The poft-office 

 packets to and from Milford haven are ftationed 

 here. 



Wednesbury, (Staff. E.J a fmall town near 

 Birmingham, with maniifafturcs of locks, gun- 

 locks, nails, and other articles of ironmongery. 



Wellingburgh, (Nortbamp. E.J a confider- 

 able town with good ftone houfes, has a large fliare 

 of the lace manufadure, and a good market for 

 corn. 



Wellington, CShrop. E.J a town fituated 

 among mines of coal, lime, and iron ore, has large 

 furnaces for iron, wrought by fleam. 



Wellington, (Som. E.J a town on the fouth 

 fide of the River Tone, with a confiderable maiiM- 

 fafture of druggets and ferges 



Wells, (Korf. E.J a decayed town, with a har- 

 bour much injured by ihc fea, has fome veflels, and 

 fome trade in cprn and malt ■ but fifliing is the 

 principal bufinels of the place. 



Wells, (Som. £.J a fmall epifcopal city, has 



little bufiuefs of any kind, except that fome of the 

 women are employed in knitting itockings and 

 working lace. 



WrLSHPooL, (Mont. W.J a confiderable town 

 at the head of the navigable water of the Severn, 

 has a great market for the flannels, which are the 

 ftaple manufafture of the neighbouring country. 



Wemysg, pronounced Weems, (Fife, S.J a fmnll 

 tov.'n with a tolerable tide harbour, and fome trade 

 in fliipping coals and fait to the ports of Scotland, 

 and coals to the Baltic, Hamburgh, and the 

 Netherlands, whence wood, iron, and flax, are 

 brought in return. Some good veflels are built 

 here ; and feveral of the larger ones belonging to 

 the place are chartered by the merchants of other 

 ports for foreign trade, or by government as tranf- 

 ports. The town has a ftiare of the trade in low- 

 priced linens, the general ftaple of Fife. 



Westbury, (Wilt. E.J a town on the border 

 of Saliftjury plain, has a confiderable manufatture 

 of woolen cloth, and makes a great deal of malt. 



The Western islands, fo called as lying on 

 the weft fide of Scotland, confift of Skie, Lewis, 

 North Uift, South Uift, Barray, Cannay, Rum, 

 Col, Tirie, Mull, Lifniore, Colonfay, Jura, Ilayi 

 and an almoft innumerable multitude of fmaller 

 iflands. 



In the darkeft ages of European barbarifm the 

 light of fcience flione, comparatively bright, in thefe 

 remote iflands ; and fome faint rays from them il- 

 luminated the country now called Scotland, and even 

 England. From the ninth to the thirteenth cen- 

 tury inclufive, they, together with Mann, coiiftit- 

 uted the Norwegian feudal kingdom of Mann. 

 During that period fhey were in fome degree en.^ 

 livened by arts, induftiy, and commerce ; and their 

 fleets were frequently formidable to the coafts of 

 England, Scotland, and Ireland. The unhappy 

 condition to which Scotland was reduced, very 

 foon after the acquifition of the kingdom of Mann, 

 by the deaths of the good King Alexander IIJ, 

 and his infant grand-daughter Queen Margaret, 

 funk the iflands into a ftate of barbarifm. They 

 continued neglefted, and almoft unknown, by the 

 government of Scotland : and the accefiion of the 

 Scottifli fovereign to the crown of England remov- 

 ed them ftill further from the attention of the court. 

 Even now, the little knowledge, which people in 

 general have of them, is chiefly derived from the 

 accounts given by travelers, who have lately viiited 

 them from motives of curiofity. 



But this negle^ed portion of the Britijh empire is an 

 unopened mine of •wealth aud profperity, ivhich, ivhen- 

 ever itfhall be refltrcd to its natural importance ly pa- 

 triotic ivifdom, 'will he infinitely mure valuable thonjiftj 

 conquefls, and fifty diflant colonies. 



Wexford, the capital of a county fo c.dled, is 

 a confiderable town, with about 9,000 inhabitants, 

 fituated at the mouth of the Rivcr Slaney, on 'he 

 fouth fide of a fpacious harbour or bay, to which 

 there belong above 60 veflels of nioder. te bur' hen. 

 The exports conUlt ot corn, nour, anu lume 



