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AND WORKS OF TOPOGRAPHY. 



COOKES 

 TOPOGRAPHICAL LIBRARY, 



OR 



POCKET COUNTY DIRECTORY: 



CONTAINING 



An Accurate and Comprehensive 

 TOPOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION 



OF ALL THE 



COU NTIES 



IN 



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A perfect acquaintance with the Local History and internal Advantages of 

 our Native Country is certainly one of the most useful, ornamental, and desirable 

 branches of human Knowledge; and it will readily be admitted tliat there is not 

 a nation in the world more generally interesting- to the scientific observer than 

 that of Great Britain. 



COOKE'S TOPOGRAPHICAL. LIBRARY forms a complete PICTRE of the 

 BRITISH EMPIRE, and contains a particular Account of the 



Picturesque Scenery, 

 Natural History, 

 Civil and Ecclesiastical 

 Jurisdiction, 



&.C. &c. 



Situation, Mines, Agriculture, 



Extent, Minerals, Fairs, 



Towns, Fisheries, Markets, 



Roads, Manufactures, Monuments 



Rivers, Trade, Curiosities, 



Lakes, Commerce, | Antiquities, 



of all the Counties in England, Wales, and Scotland; the whole interspersed 

 with a variety of Information, entertaining to the general Reader— highly 

 beneficial to the Agriculturist, Trader, and Manufacturer — and particularly 

 interesting to the Traveller, Speculatist, Antiquarian, and, in short, to every 

 Man of the World. 



The Work is highly illustrated with a complete Series of County Maps, accu- 

 rately Coloured, and Embellished with upwards of Three Hundred Picturesque 

 Views of Towns, Casti.es, Churches, Cathedrals, Natural Curiosities, Noblemen's 

 and Gentlemen's Skats, Druidical Remains, &c. Stc- 



The division of the Work into separate Counties affords great accommodation 

 to the Public, in selecting such portions as may be wished; thus the Western 

 Circuit of England comprehends Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, and 

 Hants, and forms Four interesting Volumes. The other Five Circuits of the 

 Judges may be selected and bound up in the like manner. 



To each County are prefixed a List of the Markets and Fairs, an Index, 

 shewing the Distance of every Town from London, and of Towns from each other : 

 also a Copious TRAVELLING COUNTY GUIDE, describing all the Roads, Inns, 

 Distances of Stages, Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seals, &c. forming 



A COxMPLETE COUNTY ITINERARY. 



The Plan of this Work has received particular approbation, from its being 

 divided into Easy Journeys ; by which means, Persons, either Riding or on Foot, 

 have the opportunity of viewing many beauties which otherwise might be missed ; 

 and to frequenters of the various Watering Places it will be found a most 

 agreeable Guide and Companion. 



*^* The price of each Part, containing a separate History of each Countv, varies 

 according to the size of the County, from Two to Four Shillings — Any uf the Parta 

 may be had separately. 



