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From Rot her ham to Sheffield the road is 

 execrably bad, very flony, and exceffively 

 full of holes 



Sheffield contains about 30,000 inhabit- 

 ants, the chief of which are employed in 

 the manufacture of hard- ware : The great 

 branches are the plating-work, the cutlery, 

 the lead works, and the filk mill. To give 



field, fituated on the top of a hill. I would at 

 any time, with the utmoft pleafure, ride forty 

 miles to view fuch another. You look down a 

 very bold defcent upon an extenfive valley, 

 moil exquifitely beautiful j chiefly meadows of 

 admirable verdure, and all interfered with hedges 

 and fcattered trees. Three rivers wind through 

 it in different directions, in the moil pleafing 

 manner imaginable •, loil in fome places among 

 the trees, and breaking upon the eye in others, 

 in a ilile of piflurefque elegance, eafier con- 

 ceived than expreffed. They appear in eigh- 

 teen different and almoft unconnected fpots, 

 infomuch that the whole valley is ornamented 

 with them in a moil charming manner : It is 

 every way bounded by hills, waving one above 

 another, fcattered with villages, and cultivated 

 to their tops. You look immediately down on 

 one fide upon Rotberbam, and Sheffield is feen 

 in the vale at the diffance of fix miles. There 

 is diftant profpeel enough to give a rariet; 

 the fcene, and not fufficient to fatigue the eye, 

 which commands every part of this bewitching 

 land! ith eaie and delight. 



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