HAM 
fs New Foreft is Ss particularly celebrate d in hiftory 2 from 
: 
ite, being. the fcene of the accidental death of his poke 
William Rufus. 
rence to the alteration made in its extent by the Conqueror : 
but a more ancient name of this difkriét was Itene, or Y. 
Thene: it was alfo called Masertboily from the Britifh chief- 
tain, who was here conquered by Cerdic, the founder of the 
Welt-Saxon monarchy~ 
‘For further jameigulane relgueliets the hn portale tract, 
fee Nuw Forest. 
The principal rivers in ' Hamphhire are the Itchin, the 
Avon, the Boldre Water, the Exe, the Anton. and the Tefe 
or Teit ; feveral {maller itreams rife in the north-weft parts, 
but foon leave the county. The Itchin eee its fource near the 
wood, it flows to- 
2 waters of the 
ain Chriftchurch bay. The Boldre 
— is 
Forett, and aaa above Brokenhurit ; ne in a fingle 
ftream, ymington to the fea. The 
Its prefent appellation has an evident refe-. 
a various. {prings that rife in the New . 
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merly i as in Geography, a parith in the hundred of. Off 
ton, and cou of Mid lefex, Englan , is july Beet 
the m 
higher clailes of merchants and eet ta Ww. 
dwellings, stems Thy Sa &e the metropolis, ' 
building Hampftead are ereulasly difperfed over the 
fummit, and the fouthern and w n fides of a hill, which 
rifes to a confiderable elevation, Ber is v : 
very fteep in man 
places. At the top of the hill is a piece of watte fand, 
called Hampitead-common, from various flations on which 
extentive, diverfified, and interefting views are obtained, of 
a fertile, pidturefque t tra@ of country to the north and ni 
— and of an expanfive flat to the fouth, fouth-eatt and fouth- 
welt, terminated by the Surrey hiils and Epping foreft. In 
the mid of this flat are the immenfe conneéted cities of Lon 
Weftminfter, with the borough of Southwark, sid 
pest s villages and hamlets, all real in or apparently con- 
neCted with the Britifh metropolis. e “ 
even to a native e of London, ob — mutt prove pi Sie 
features : for the red fandy foil, i chap ae re 
furze, heath, and old trees, all con {pire tor render 
— ne moe ph sem and: beautiful.” 
monatteries, it nen: yee ppolfetied 
Near the 8.W. end ee bi 
y built, and confecrated 
vas ne in O4. 8, 
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