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- the fouth bank of the river Severn, at the diftance of nine 
prefent appellation. 
and in the vicinity, to a cobfiderable extent, and many per- 
{ons are ftill employed in the various procefles; though it 
muft be confeffed that the number of thefe has been much, 
and the latter at 2025 in number. Such are the effects o 
an increafing trade, which has no doubt been confiderably 
promoted by the canal navigation opened between this town 
and the Grand Trunk, by means of the Montgomery hire 
cana 
Adjoining to the town ftands Newtown-Hall, a feat of 
the Prices, of the royal tribe of Elyftan Glodrydd. The 
late owner, fir John Price, was extremely eccentric. He 
married three wives, and kept the firit two after their de- 
mife in an embalmed ftate, placing them in his cham 
on each fide of his bed. The third wife, however, with a 
been aR 
remain deep hollows, which, from their arrangement, are 
conjeGtured to be portions of the foffa or ditch, once fur- 
rounding the precin& of the ftati Two encampments 
conftruGtion; all of them undoubtedly 
fouth fide of the laft is an immenfe mount of a conical fhape, 
p fofle. The ufe of this 
North-eaft from Newtown, to the weft of the road leading 
Montgomery, ftand the ruins of Dulforwyn cattle. 
fortrefs occupied the fummit of a mountainous ridge, ex- 
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ceedingly precipitous, 
dingle. It was built, 
in his Mafk of Comus. 
Beauties 
J. Evans. 
Newtown of dyr. See Ayr Newtown. 
Newtown, a poft-town of America, in Fairfield county, 
Conneticut, pleafantly fituated on an elevated fpot, and 
fettled in 1708; 80 miles N.E. of New York.—Alfo, a 
town on Staten ifland, New York; 9 miles S.W. of New 
ork.—Alfo, a townfhip in Queen’s county, New York, 
including all the iflands in the Sound oppofite to the fame, 
and containing 2312 inhabitants, of whom 512 are flavess 
about 8 miles E. of New York.—Alfo, a townfhip in Weft 
Chefter county, New York, of whofe inhabitants 276 are 
eleGtors.—-Alfo, a poft-town in Tioga county, New York, 
ona Antiqua, 4to. 
of England and Wales, vol. xvii. by the Rev. 
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n a furnace and four 
forges. Here is a remarkable cave called the Devil’s hole, 
and in its vicinity are feveral ponds, covering from 5 to 100 
miles N.E. of Philadelphia.—Alfo, a poft-town 
al of Bucks county, Pennfylvania; containing a 
a ftone gaol, a court-houfe, an aca- 
emy, and about 40 houfes; fettled in 1725; 10 miles W. 
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the one in Delaware county, the other in that of Cumber- 
land, having 1427 inhabitants—Alfo, a {mall town of Vir- 
ginia, fituated in Frederick county, between the north and 
fouth branches of Shenandoah river; .7 miles S. of Win- 
chefter 
Strangford lough 
before the union, fent two members 
mons. It is 88 miles N. by E. from Dublin, and 8 E. 
from Belfatt. : 
Newtown Barry, a {mall town or village of the county 
of Wexford, Ireland. It is fituated on the river Slaney, on 
the confines of the county of Carlow, and is faid to be one 
of the prettieft villages in Ireland. Its fairs are much fre- 
quented. It is 48 miles S. by W. from Dublin, and 12 N. 
b . from Ennifcorthy. 
Newtown Breda, a village of the county of Down, Ire- 
land, remarkable for the beauty of its church, which attracts 
the attention of all travellers. It is 3} miles §.S.E. from 
Belfaft, and 20 N.W. from Downpatrick. 
Newtown Glens, a poft-town of the county of Antrim, 
Ireland, fituated on Cafhendal or Red bay, in — 
annel. 
