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S*i 5 ad by which you approach it on the eaftern fide 5 s made 
at a great expenfe, on the north part of the Mohawk. On 
the right of it are ftupendous highlands, which feem al- 
moft wholly compofed of rocky ftrata. In two or three 
places they are piled almoft perpendicularly, and their 
fummits are crowned with trees of confiderable fize. A 
traveller, who is given to romancing, might eafily imagine 
them to be the malTive walls of fome Udolphian callle. 
The oppolite fhore is in every refpebt fnnilar to this; and 
She river is compreffed between them to lei's than half its 
nfual breadth. A remarkable phenomenon has given this 
paffage fome adventitious fublimity. The rocks have 
been obferved to be worn away like thole under a cata¬ 
ract; fome of them which are excavated, evidently from 
aqueous attrition, may be feen from the llage cn the bor¬ 
ders of the road. From this circumltance a belief has 
arifen, that the waters of the Mohawk were formerly ar¬ 
retted by thefe everlafting'hills, forming a lake, which ex¬ 
tended many miles weftward, and that at length they burft 
their barrier, and rulhed out. The country weftward of' 
them feems to favour the fuppofition. For feveral miles 
in that direction, the river is bounded on each fide by a 
broad and beautiful intervale, which was probably the 
bottom of the ancient lake. 
LITTLE GRAN'SDEN, a village in Cambridgefliire, 
near Caxton.—Great Granfden is near it, but in the ad¬ 
joining county of Huntingdon. 
LITTLE HAMP'TON, a feaport town of England, in 
the county of Sulfex, at the mouth of the Adur, with 
about fix hundred inhabitants : four miles fouth of Arun¬ 
del, and fixty fouth of London. 
LITTLE HAR'BOUR, a bay in the Straits of Magel¬ 
lan, on the coalt of Patagonia : five miles north-weft of 
Bachelor's river. 
LITTLE I'SLAND, a fmall iHand of Ireland, in the 
fiver Suire, two miles below Waterford. 
LITTLE I'SLAND, an illand in the river Lee, in Ire¬ 
land, about three miles in circumference: fix miles eaft 
of Cork. 
LITTLE I'SLAND, or Little Salvado'r, one of 
the fmaller Bahama iflands. Lat. 23. 46. N. Ion. 75. 26. W. 
LITTLE KE'Y, or Bush Key, an ifiet near the 
fouth coaft of the ifland of Cuba. Lat. 21. 26. N. Ion. 
84.40. W. 
LITTLE RIV'ER, a river of America, in Kentucky, 
■which runs into the Cumberland in lat. 36. 32. N. Ion. 
88. 30. W.—A river which runs into the Tennafee in lat. 
35.46. N. Ion. 83. 47. W.—A river of Georgia, which 
runs into the Savannah fixteen miles below Peterfburg.— 
A river of the weftern territory of America, which runs 
into the Wabach in lat. 38. 45. N. Ion. 88. 5. W.—A river 
of South-Carolina, which runs into the Saluda in lat. 45. 
10. N. Ion. 81. 46. W.—A river of North-Carolina, which 
runs into the Pedee in lat. 35. 8. N. Ion. 79. 52. W.—A ri¬ 
ver of North-Carolina, which runs into the Neufe in lat. 
35. 26. N. Ion. 78. 15. W.—A river of North-Carolina, 
which runs into Albemarle Sound in lat. 36. 6. N. Ion. 76. 
26. W.—A river of Connecticut; it joins the Shetucket 
to form the Thames. 
LITTLE ROCK' RIVER, a river of America, which 
runs into the Wabafh in lat. 40. 22. N. Ion. 86. 44. W. 
LITTLE SO'DUS, a harbour of Lake Ontario : fifteen 
miles fouth of Ofwego. 
LITTLE WAL'DEN, a village in Eflex, and a ham¬ 
let to Saffron Walden; now called Audley-End ; on the 
fide of the Cambridge road. Audley-End was once a 
royal palace, the largeft in England ; and of which there 
ftill remains one large court. It was built out of the 
ruins of Walden-Abbey, by Thomas lord Audley, fon of 
Thomas duke of Norfolk, who married the only daughter 
and heirefs of the afore-named lord Audley. This Tho¬ 
mas was fummoned to parliament, in queen Elizabeth’s 
time, as lord Audley of Walden ; and was afterwards 
created earl of Suffolk by James I. to whom he was firft 
chamberlain, and afterwards lord bigh-treafurer. It was 
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defigned for a royal palace for Edward III. and, when ie 
was finished with all the elegance and talle of the times, 
the king was invited to fee it; and, as he paffed to New¬ 
market, he took iip a night’s lodging there; when, after 
having viewed it with great furprife and attonifhment, the 
earl alked him how he approved of it ? Fie anfwered, 
“Very well; but troth, man,” Laid he, “it is too much 
for ixking ; but it may do tor a lord liigh-treafurer;” and 
io left 11 upon the earl’s hands, who is reported to have 
had then an eftate of 50,000b a-year. King Charles II. 
indeed, purchafed it for a royal palace, as the builder in- 
tended it, and mortgaged the hearth-tax to James earl of 
Suffolk, to anfvvei the purchafe ; but, upon the revolution, 
when the faid tax was taken off, the ftate not being in a 
condition to fpare the money, king William re-granted 
the houfe to the family; upon which, Henry earl of Suf¬ 
folk pulled down a great part of it. It now belongs to 
lord Howard of Walden, who in 1764 caufed the ground 
in the front of the houfe to be elegantly laid out, and a 
bridge built over a piece of water that was formed by a 
rivulet which divides the road from the houfe. Its inter¬ 
nal grandeur and external beauties, replete with all the 
varieties of hill and vale, vvood and water, are rarely to 
be found combined within fuch limits. 
At a fmall town called Littlebury, not far from Aud¬ 
ley-End, is a houfe which was erected by the famous 
Mr. Winftanley, who built Eddyftone light-houfe, and pe¬ 
riled in it, as mentioned in vol. vi. p. 242. The fame- 
gentleman was famous alfo for his water-works, full of 
whimfical but ingenious contrivances.—Streathall, north- 
welt of Saffron Walden, is in old records reckoned a ham¬ 
let to Littlebury. 
Near Ickleton and Streathall, upon the river Cam, lie# 
Chetterford ; where, in the year 1719, were dilcovered 
the veftiges of a Roman city. The foundation of the 
walls is very apparent quite round, though level with the 
ground, including about fifty acres. Great part of it 
ierves for a caufeway to the public Cambridge road from 
London. The Crown Inn is built upon it. At the north- 
weft end of the town is the foundation of a Roman tem¬ 
ple. Many Roman coins have been found in the Bo¬ 
rough-Field, as they term the ancient city, whofe name 
was Camboritum, according to Dr. Stukeley. In this pa- 
rifti, they fay, has been a royal manor. Not far off, by 
Audley-End, is a great Roman camp, upon an emi¬ 
nence, where now itand the ruins of a hunting-tower of 
brick. 0 
A little north of this part of the country rifes the river 
Stour, which, for a courfe of fifty miles or more, parts 
the two counties of Suffolk and Effex; palling through or 
near Haveril, Clare, Cavendilh, Melford, Sudbury, Buers, 
Nayland, Stretford, Dedham, Manningtree, and into the 
fea at Harwich. 
LITTLE YORK', a town of Upper Canada, fituated 
on the north-weftern fide of Lake Ontario, and is the feat 
of government of that province. It was taken by the 
Americans on the 27th of April, 1813; but they were 
foon compelled to quit it. It is 40 miles north by weft of 
Niagara Fort, and 120 weft-fouth-weft of Kingfton. Lat. 
43. 57. N. Ion. 80. 35. W. 
LIT'TLEBOROUGH, four miles above Gainfborough, 
but in Nottinghainttiire, is the Agelocum, or Segelocum, of 
the Romans; now a fmall village, jult upon the edge of 
the water, in a nook. It feems to have been only envi¬ 
roned with a ditch, and was of a fquare form. The wa¬ 
ter ran quite round it; for to the weft, where White’s 
Bridge is, a watery valley hems it in, fo that it was lurfi- 
ciently ttrong. The Trent has wailied away part of the 
eaftern fide of the town. Foundations and pavements 
are vilible in the bank. Here an urn, with a coin of Do- 
mitian, was found ; and great numbers of coins have been 
taken up in ploughing and digging, which they call Jzoine- 
pennies, becaufe thole creatures fometimes root them up, 
and the inhabitants take little care to preferve them. Bri~ 
tip Directory, vol. ii. 
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