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WwW Hamphhire, fi fituated on the W. fide of Merrimack 
1746, and containing 1267 inha- 
miles a N.W of Bofton 
NorrincuaM, £aft and Wef, two townthips i in Chefter 
county, Pennfyla nia 5 ho former having 889, and the latter 
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he TTINGHAM Jffand, an ifland in Hudfon’s Bay. N. 
lat. 63° 3o!. 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, one of the central counties 
of England, : Lowa - » weft by 
north by Yorkshire; on ay Li 
the fouth by the county of ra 
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and forty miles, and to contain a fuperficial area of 480,000 
acres. According to the parliamentary returns of 1811, 
the houfes in this fhire amounted to 32,462, and the in- 
habitants to 162,900 in number ;_ whereas in 1801 the houfes 
were only oo at 26,153, and the ——_ at 
140,3 go tid erfon 
the ane of f Noting 
Rutland, and Northampton. 
refiftance againit the progrefs of the Roman arms; but 
being ultimately obliged to fubmit, their dominions were 
included in the province of seein a Cefarienfis, which ex- 
tended from the river fe : o the Humber. Le = 
the overthrow of the 
i ot 
tinghamfhire was governed by the earls of Mercia, during 
whole d tion no incident worthy of 
aa 
defeated the ear 
army to a the ace 
Simnel in 1487. ing the time of the civil 
Charles I, Newark a remarkable for the loyalty of its 
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inhabitants ; ee a a no lefs fo for its fleady ad- 
herence to the parliam For e particulars of the 
frantattions i that pre ie Newark and Norrincu HAM. 
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the s uneven, and perhaps may be termed a 
mal os though none of the on rife to any ey Seer 
tinghamfhire wolds conftitute a range 
f high open pein refe bling the wolds of Yorkfhire, 
and the downs of Wilthhi a . ke riking contraft to 
ren 
nk diftrict accompanies the river through its wick oe 
within the courity, and varies in breadth from one to five miles. 
ying on fand or gr hich fometimes appear on the 
furface. The fame foil hea oe on ng ei of the 
Soar, from its non the Trent up t a ed and 
In the tah diftri& there are two divifions, ufually 
in north an — = a clays.’” he firft of thefe, 
nfiderable m of fand in its compofition, is 
more Ae ‘Tafcept ible oF peice Ebou than cold clay 
lands in general. re northern portio ons, it is agrees 
ably diverfified with hill and dale ; whilft its bold promonto- 
ries, rifing a bruptly from the dead level of Miffon-Car, a 
steal Pig eae in Lincolnfhire, appear evidently to have 
fo mote period iad boundaries to an ocean, 
eich muft once oie e flowed over what is now a fcene of 
rich cultivation. It is indeed ‘mpoffible ce any one to con- 
- template the view from Gringley-on-the-Hill without draw- 
ing this conclufion, and it feems ftill more evident if the 
hills are viewed from 
f iflands 
called « 
havin ga 
other fide they fink gradually into the 
country. The fouth clay diftri& is lefs extenfive than the 
north. It is, however, by far the moft valuable divifion of 
rpa 
the vale, partake o 
the nature of 1 its foil, but from es "By and expofed fie. 
tion are deftitute of its fertility, though certainly well 
adapted for plantation. The lime-ftone and coal lands are 
fituated on the weftern verge o 
climate, it ma ob- 
pe experiment aQt is penile by r. Lowe, 
in his agricultural furvey, upon the very rational peace. 
that clouds fr e weftern ocean break on the hills 
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of Derbyfhire and Yorkfhire, and difcharge themfelves be- 
fore they reach the sant eelgwien level diftri€& of Notting- 
amfhire; while thofe from the German ocean, being power- 
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mt 
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y to depofi 
gel a, as may be fuppofed, is favourable to the 
temperature of the air ; Sie except in the marfhy grounds 
and 
