NOR 
various parts of the garden. opo- 
graphical Survey of Kent, 12 vols. 8vo. Beauties of England 
and es, vol. vil. E. W. Brayley 
NORTHFORD, a parifh of Branford, New Haven 
county, Connecticut, in ghich are a poft-office, and alfo a 
Congregational and an Epifcopal church; to miles E. of 
New Haven 
NORTH HAMPTON, atownfhip of New 
in Rockingham county, containing 653 inha 
2—Alfo, a townfhip in n Mon 
ork ; containing 996 inhabitants. 
NORTH HAMP AD, a townfhip in Queen’s 
county, Long ifland, New “= containing 2413 inha- 
bitants, of whom 269 are flave 
HAVEN, a town a ear ae a 
in New Haven county 3 32 
miles S. by W. of Hartford, “fettled j in eos and cont itieg 
II $7 inhabitants. 
RTH HUNTINGTON, a townhhip in aa 
land county, Pennfylvania, including 1484 inhabita 
NORTHING, in Navigation, the difference of latitude, 
which a fhip makes in failing oS the nort ae 
NORTH KINGSTOWN, eography, a ; 
America, in Wafhin ngton county, Rhode ifland, which carries 
on a confiderable trade in the fifheries, and alfo fome to the 
eft Indies; its harbour is called Wickford < geht miles 
.W. of Newport. _—* townfhip contains 2794 inhabit- 
ants, including 39 flav 
ORT LEACH, a a final market a in the ae 
of Bradley, Gloucefterfhire, Englan ituated in a bot- 
tom amongit the Cot ha hills near the fource of the little 
river Leach, at the diftance of 2 s from the ae 
Glouc efter Ty and 82 
w Hamphhire, 
bitants ; incor- 
ntgomery county, 
2. 
miles bom a was 
pa o lay 
family at the Loni of the la hc cen 
property of James Dutton, who was ead lord Sherborne 
in Nina 
ublic 
the buildings fas the Ss cocton of thefe articles are mentioned 
i dder, in his Hilto: ory of Gloucefterthire, as remaining, 
rch, which is a {pacious edifice, confifts of a nave, chan- 
d fide aifles, an aren fouth porch, and a lofty 
tower at the _ Bi seal orked . battlements. 
ur 
memorials te f opulent dothiens who lived in the 
Sheonth c century. A free grammar {chool was founded here, 
9 
, places - in 2 readth ; and co 
e oa 
NOR 
in 1559, by Hugh Weftwood, efq., who endowed it with 
the ipa ama of Chedworth, then producing nearly 
1201. per annum: every fourth year an eter | is fent from 
this fcicsl to ial ae ae Oxford, on the foundation 
n the popu- 
lation — in the year 1811, the inhabitants of the = 
are ftated to be 647 occupying o houfes. The market 
is held on Wednelay 5 3; and here are now three ae fair, 
At Eaftington, a tything in Northleach parifh, Dr. Wood, 
t part of his valuable colleétion of _— 
This 
wae made a grea 
bourn, or Sherbo The manor b 
tion. rwards became the propert 
and is now pelleted by lord Sherborne, who has a feat here 
called Sherborne Houfe. It is an extenfive manfion, and 
ncient 
of ctsin is a neat e. 
n was ae birth-place of Dr. James Bradley, 
who fucceeded Dr. Halley as aftronomer royal at Green- 
wich. He was born in 1692, died in 1762, and was buried 
at Minchin-Hampton in Gloucefterfhire. Rudge’s Hiftory 
Be of Gloucefterfhire, 2 vols. 8vo. Beauties of England, 
vol. v. 
NORTHLINED Lakg, a lake of Annerica, about 
160 miles S. of the head of Chefterfield inlet, about 80 
miles long, and a5 broad, full of iflands. N. lat. 60° 40’. 
Ww. yar te 98° 30! 
NORTHORN, a town of Germa any, in a —_ of 
Bentheim, on the — ; Shas miles N. of ae 
NORTHPORT, a townfhip of America, in in Han 
ounty, same eect ia 1796, and containing pre 
fohabitant 
NORTH SALEM, a townfhip of America, in Wett 
Chefter county, New York, af dae to Ridgefield in Con- 
neCticut, containing 1145 inhabitan 
NORTHUMBERLAND, te colts percce! aap 
of England, lies Ned ig 1 54 51! and 55° 48’ N. lat., and 
between 1° and 2 ong. It is Peondes on the eaft 
th oam n ocean ; on ens welt by Roxburghfhire and 
Cumberland ; on the north by Berwickfhire; andon the fouth 
by the county of Durham. Including the detached portions 
of the Jatter county; called Northamfhire, Iflandfhire, and 
Bedlingtonfhire, it extends 64 miles in length and in fome 
mpri ie an area of 1980 fquare 
miles 267 Cres 5 cee 17> so are level and 
fafceptible of cultivation, while the remaining 450,000 are 
of a mountainous character, and not — to agricultural 
io) 
#, who are mentioned by 
Dio Caffius as poffefliag the territories adjoining the Pid&s 
wall, 
