NOR 
parts of this county, is i 
bourhood of Northw ‘che 
only from the brine tring: but alfo from the natural beat 
a circumftance peculiar to this town and its vicinicy : the 
nual quantity of rock falt delivered from the pits is font 
0,000 to 60,000 tons; in addition to which, the brine pits 
yield a yearly fupply of not lefs than 45,000 tons. See 
ALT. 
ut four miles from Northwich is Vale Royal abbey, 
the feat of Thomas Cholmondeley, e A monattery of 
this name was founded here, for Ciftercian monks, by prince 
— hielo king o part of the an- 
cien ey ow peer though fome places retain 
appellation conned with monaftic difcipline. The hall 
the prefent marfion Nes ereGted in the beginnin x of the 
nearly feventy feet in length. 
The apartments are 
feventsath century ; 
phe been recently ebuilt. 
embellithed with numerous portraits, fome which are of 
diftinguifhed eminence he hbrary is rarge and valuable. 
Lyfons’ Magna Britannia, vol. ii. Beauties of England 
ley. 
WOOD, an interior and elevated townfhip of 
America, in Rockingham county, New Hampbhire, in which, 
and on its borders, isa number of {mall ponds, whofe waters 
{upply Pifcataqua and Suncook rivers ; ee in 
1773, and containing 950 inhabitants; about 3 es N.W. 
: ‘Portimouth Cryitals and cry ftalline ne are found 
“NORTH YARMOUTH, a poft-town of Cumberland 
county, in the ftate of Maine, on a {mall a which falls 
ge T 
of Bru 
wnthip, which is extenfive, wa s incorpora nl 17135 
and contains 2600 inhabitants. It is divided from Pecccan 
n the Cuffens ri 
NORTON, Cuiprine, a borough and market town 
in the hundred of Chadlington, and county of Oxforc, 
England, is fituated 20 miles di'tant from the city of 
Oxford, an from London. Its appellation, 
been a town of note in 
Chipping, fhews it to have 
Saxon times, as Ceapan, whence it is derived, fignifies a 
market or place of trade, as all the places appear to have 
been which have the name of Chipping prefixed. The town 
is incorporated, and the governrnent is vefted in two bailiffs 
Here is a 
were ca . parliament in the zoth y 
alfo in the 32d and 33d years of Edward III., fince which 
period 2 return has been made. 
out three miles from Chipping-Norton is an ancient 
monument, called the Rowldrich, or the Roll-rich-ftones, 
in height, and fixteen inches thick, excep in the 
orth ea which is even feet high, and five ad and a half 
NOR 
large ftone called the King-ftone, eight feet in height, feven 
feet in breadth, and about twelve inches in thicknefs. Cam 
den thinks this mcnument to be a memorial of fome ace, 
perhaps ere€ted by Roilo the Dane, ‘eho invaded Enylan a 
in 816. But Dr. Stukeley afcribes it to the Druids; 
Rholdrwg. he fays, fignifies the circle or r ce 
Druids. ie the fame an he ae Date’ rag feveral ran 
one of w 
and arte at Oo inhabitants. 
= ils and of ochre.—-Alfo, a fettlement on t 
of Cape Breton ifland.—Alfo, a town of South Carolina ; 
S 
22 miles S$. of Columbia 
n the N.W. coaft of North 
a k in 1778, and fo walled 
in honour of fir Fletcher N orton, afterwards baron Grantle 
This bay extends to the northward as far as N. lat. 6 
The people eee to this bay did not appear to our navi- 
r as to their fize or features, from 
aid wid logs, the Arete being at one end; the fire-place 
juit within it; an ole was made near the door to 
let out the fmoke. 
obtained in exchan kn 
but the article chiefly valued was 1 The berr 
d here were wild c iran heetes hurtle berries, 
i ath by rries. From the elevated 
ng furveyed the found, he could diftin- 
g many eet a 8 ies with rivers running through 
them, well wooded, and bounded by hills of a gentle afcent 
and moderate height. One of thefe rivers, which runs to 
.W., appeared to be confiderable, and to empty itfelf 
into the fea at the head of the bay. The trees were found 
to the S. and Ss. W. winds; nor is the 
found. From 77 fs of lunar een. he longue 
of the anchoring place, on the W. fide of the A 
found to be 197° 1 
pafs 25° 45’ E. Dip ni 
flood rofe almoft two or three feet; and the ‘day- fod wa 
hardly perceivable. Cooke’s Third Vo oyage, vol. i 
own of the ifland of Sardinia; 6 miles 
N.E. of Saffari. 
NORUM, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland; 20 
miles S. of Udd 
NO RUNGAHL a ‘town of Hindooftan, in Bahar ; 33 
miles W. of 
NOR 
x, a leant Shay of Fig cps in Fair- 
the of Long Ifland 
1651, is Gass in a fertile wheat country. iron 
works, and a number of mills; it carries on a {mall trade to 
ew 
