ic D I S T R I C T. 



Wtd. But within thele limits ibme ban'en 

 lands are included. 



III. Its ELEVATION above the fea is 

 leis than the eye may eftimate. The tide 

 ilaws to its center. The vallies of courfe. 

 lie low ; but the hills rife abruptly j and 

 much of the cultivated lands may be 

 deemed /ji7I ; all of them upland. No 

 part of the Diftricl can be flriftly called 

 vale i nor is there any extent of flat 

 yneaddwsj or marfh lands, within it ; though, 

 here and there, a narrow bottom or 

 *' coombe" is obfervable : thefe meadowy 

 flips, probably, having been formed by 

 the waters which now ilcirt them. 



IV. The SURFACE is various in 

 the extreme : not only from the number, 

 narrownefs, and depth of the larger vallies, 

 whofe fides generally rife fteeply from the 

 banks of the ftreams that divide them ; but 

 from the hills, or wider fpaccs between 

 thofe vallies, being ;-ent and broken, in the 

 manner peculiar to the South-weftern ex- 

 tremity of the Iflpvnd : a ftyle of furface 

 •\vhich takes place at the Weftern termi- 

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