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degrees of elevation ; and on the oppo- 
fite fidd, it alfo rifles, but the afcent 1s 
more rapid, and much clothed with 
wood. I obferved, in this day’s jour- 
ney, feveral clay huts, fimilar to thofe 
found on the borders of Scotland. 
HeveRINGHAM is a/{mall country 
parith, in a pleafant, fertile diftrict ; 
farms rather {mall than otherwife, and 
buildings mofily of the inferior fort; the 
ground, however, is pretty well culti- 
vated, and produces luxuriant crops.— 
implements of hutbandry are heavy, and 
rather uncouth; carts continue’ to be 
drawn by two or more horfes, and 
ploughs by three or four. The Trent 
is navigable here, and for feveral miles 
above; pretty large veffels, with fails, 
and diawn by two, three, and four horfes, 
are feen navigating to and from Hull, 
&c. with various loading. 
May 25, wentfrom HovVERINGHAM 
to NEWARK, in Nottinghambhire, eight 
miles. Continue the bye-road, down the 
Trent fide: the wale here is nearly two 
miles broad, level, fertile, and, on the 
whole, the mof beautiful difriét I have 
feen. The banks on the fouth fide are 
covered with thick woods, which ap- 
proach near the river; the fields on the 
north fide are delightful tothe eye ; their 
beauty is heightened by the regular 
neat thorn hedges, which divide them. 
Soil various, but chicfly a lightifh loamy 
clay; much grafs land; the large Lin- 
colnfhire breed of theep prevails here. 
Excellent. hufbandry in this. diftriét, 
particularly near Newark. I paffed 
through the fmall town of Sroxe, the 
buildings of which are almoft univerfally 
thatched with ftraw; feveral are built 
with clay. Sir GEORGE SMITH has a 
{mall feat here.’ 
Newark ftands-on a level plain, is 
a neat, well-built, clean, and healthy 
town; the great north road from Lon- 
don pafies through it. The country, on 
every fide, hasa lively, cheerful afpect Bie 
the Trent runs clofe by the town, and 
employs_a great number of hands in 
loading, unloading, and navigating vef- 
fels. Coai forms one of the principal 
branches of trade ; it is brought from 
W OOLERTON, and the neighbourhood. 
Lime is dug here, which is in high re- 
_ pute for making fine platter. No manufac - 
ture of confequence is carried on at New- 
ark. ‘The population about 7000 fouls. 
‘The church and town-hall are fine ftruc- 
tures; the former has a remarkably high 
{pire. : 
In general, Nottinghamfhire is a fer. 
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tile, well-cultivated county; the foil 
pretty deep, its quality and furface more 
regular than in thofe counties I have yet 
paffed through. Sheep large, cattle long 
horned ; a good proportion, of corn and 
grats land; and I oblerved few commons, 
or common fields + a great proportion of 
the inclofures, however, have a modern 
appearance. it is. for the moft part, a 
farming county; although the manufac- 
ture of filk ftockings has long been ef- 
tablifhed in Nottingham, and fome other 
towns; and, latterly, the {pinning of 
cotton by machinery. No peculiar traits 
are obfervabie in the manners of the in- 
habitants. [ To be continued. | 
To ibe Editor of ibe Mouthly Magazine. 
SIR, } 
HE writer of this, and I believe the 
public alfo, would be much obliged 
to any perfon who would, through the 
channel of your Monthly Magazine, give 
an accurate account of the principal! fo- 
reign literary journals, their origin, and 
re{pective merits, and how they are at 
prefent to be procured; together with 
fuch other pérticulars of their price, 
manner of publication, &c. as he fhould 
think fit to communicate. 
Feb.,10, 1797. 

A. 

ON THE STubyY oF HisTory. 
LETTER II. 
To the Editor of ibe Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
PHE favourable reception which you 
have given to my efiay, for the 
direction of the ftudent zx his choice of ele- 
mentary books, in natural philofophy, has en- 
couraged me to lay before you a few 
thoughts to the fame effect, as relating to 
the STUDY Of HISTORY; afcience of no 
mean importance, if we admit the expref- 
fion of a great moral poet in its full excent : 
«‘ The proper ftudy of mankind is men.” 
Subordinate to this great end, the ftudy 
of hiftory prefents to us twe immediate 
objetis; the firft, an acquaintance with 
the manners and character of nations ; 
the fecond, a knowledge of the focial in- 
terefts of mankind, of the nature, effeéts, 
and utility of political forms and public 
inftitutions, and of thofe which are beft 
adapted to the nature of man, and moft 
conducive to his happinefs. Without a 
fund of this neceffary elementary know- 
ledge, the political fpeculator will be 
quite as abfurd as the man who fhould 
undertake to reform the whole fyftem of 
the Newtonian philofophy, without ever 
3 Bz having 
