ii T f I E COUNTY. u 



VALE OF PICKERING. 



THE SITUATION of this divifion of 

 Enil Yorklhire has been already given. Its 

 OUTLINE fomewhat oval. The extent of its 

 larger diameter about thirty-five miles ; its 

 grcateft width about twelve miles : includ- 

 ing in its area, and the cultivated lands 

 which hang upon its banks, and which as 

 property belongs to it, about three hundred 

 fquare miles, or 200,000 acres, 



The feet of the marginal hvells are Hud- 

 ded with TOWNS and villaG£s; which in 

 fomc parrs are not a mile afundcr ; but in 

 others are farther diftant, and lefs regular. 



To thcfe marghial townships belong, ge- 

 nerally, the lands of the Slope, with a por- 

 tion of the area or bottom of the Vale ; 

 which, through this reafon, is thinly inha- 

 bited. From the center wcftward a few 

 vilkgcs- are fcattered ; but from thence 

 caftvv'ard, the entire area, one townfliip ex- 

 cepted, is included within the towniliij)s of 

 the margin. 



