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tion, either in the police or partth of- 
ficers? Begging in every iaape ought to 
be difcouraged ; it is the fure concomi- 
tant of zdlencfs, and often of fomething 
worfe. 
HALIFAX ftands rather low, and on 
the declivity of a hill, the foot of which 
is wafhed by a {mall brook. The ftrects 
are narrow, but they havea flagged walk 
along each fide. It is well built of 
white ftone, and is increafing in buiid- 
ings and population. The wealth of the 
place appears in the number of neat, 
pretty feats, adjacent to the town, built 
by the merchants and manufacturers, de- 
corated with groves of trees, waiks, and 
gardens; and not lefs in the tine market- 
houfe, lately erected. This elegant 
building is nearly fquare, the outtide 
¥12 yards by 100, the infide 100 yards by - 
< 7 
88; ithas three floors on the lower part, 
and two on the higher, and contains, in 
all, 315 different rocms, or apartments, 
for the reception and fale of manutac- 
tured ftuffs.. Each of thefe rooms be- 
longs to a different manufaéiurer, and 
cofts him 28]. “Ehere is a covered walk 
before every tier of fhops, by means of 
which, the merchants can go from one 
fhop to another, without inconvenience, 
mm the wettefi weather. This houfe is 
only open on the market dzys. Al- 
though HALIFAX is not large, the pa- 
rifh is very extenfive, fanding upon 
nearly 150 {quare miles, and ae 
one church, and 13 chapels of eafe 
‘The church, which fiands in Haldane is 
a fine old pile, and has a high fteeple: 
the church-yard*, teo{mail for the town- 
itp is wholly covered with fat tomb- 
ftones, laid on the furface. Houles, 
which Bee en into the church-yard, form 
the wall about it ; but they are certainly 
net calculated for people of nice feelings, 
graves being daily opened within a few 
feet of the doors, and human bones 
tumbling about on every fide. 
The grcunds adj joining HALIFAX are 
beautifully floping. Gn the oppofite 
fide of the- brook,” a hill rifes rapidiy, 
and prefents its rugged front to the 
town, almeft in a ftate of nature. At 
Southouram, a village, one mile anda 
halt from the town, great quantities of 
excellent white freeftone is ee, 
chiefly in flags, and fent to London, and 
‘other parts ot the fouth of England.— 
‘They are taken to ae Humber, by means 


* An A& of Parliament has fince been ob- 
tained for the ere@tion of a new church in Ha- 
(ou 
stiaX. 
Tour of England—Kirftall, Leeds, &c. 
ef canals, one of which extends withia 
one mile and a half of Halifax. I ob-_ 
ferved fome ke thefe flags large enough 
to cover fix fquare yards. of fuperficies. 
Coals are ae o procured near this town... 
The manufaGture ef Halifax is chief 
callimances, tammies, and other ftuffs ; 
a few broad cloths are alfomade. The 
gevernor of the workhoufe is a very 
-worthy intelligent man, and on that 
rere of ufefulnefs is © 
account, as his {ph 
extenfive, he deferves to be mentioned. 
April 21, returned to BRADFORD: 
andon the 22d, went from BRADFORD 
to KIRKSTALL, in York fhire, fix miles. 
Soil generally a black moorith earth, with - 
a fub-firatum of red fand, intermixed 
with clay ; furface level: a great part of 
the bopeiry feems to have been formerly 
common, and has not even now acquired a 
very fertile appearance; population very ~ 
great, and feems on the increafe. The 
whole country bufinefs occupied by rami- 
fications from the neighbouring manu- 
facturing towns. Qbferved fome new 
hedges of thorn planted upon the ground, 
Without any mound of earth, “which, 
notwithfanding, grow very quickly.— 
Farms pretty large, houfes and cottages 
good. , we 
The vale of KiRKSTALL, formed by 
the river ‘Air, is fertile and extenfive.— 
The townthip confifis of a few ftrag- 
gling farm houfes and cottages, a rape 
mill, and forme warehoufes upon the ca- 
nal which pafies -by this place. The 
remains of the venerable old pile called 
KIrnkst ALL ABBEY, is feena quarter 
of a mile eaft of the road, by the river 
fide. ‘This noble itruéture, once very 
large and extended, is now almoit whol- 
ly = ruins. A few cloifters, fome high 
wails and gateways, and part of a very 
high tower, are yet ftanding, which fuf- 
ficiently evince its former. magnitude. 
once famous place is vifited by 
firangers from all parts, who happen to 
be in this part of the country. 1t be- 
longs to Lorp Mpa i = who al- 
Jows a mafon sol. a- year for keeping 
it in repair. Mir. Gata of Ed- 
mond cafile, in Cumberland, has a con- 
fiderable eftate clofe-by Kirkitall. 
April 23, went from KIRKSTALL to 
LEEDs, in Yorkfhire, three miles. A 
pleafant country, and a vale on the right. 
‘The verdure which appears on the fields 
and hedges, proves the richnefs and 
warmth of the foil. Approaching 
LEEDs, the icene is truly delightful: 
merchants’ houfes, elegant and neat, 
fianding among green fields in every 
Kc ; potnt 
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