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Excerpt from Topography of Great Britain, or British Traveller's Pocket Directory, Vol. 12: Being an Accurate and Comprehensive Topographical and Statistical Description of All the Counties in England, Scotland and Wales, With Adjacent Islands; Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
In this district large tracts possess in such a high degree the advantage of obtaining water, that the farmer can flow his grounds when and where he pleases, brooks and rivulets running through the greater part of these fine meadows, with few or no mills to interrupt or controul him in the free appli cation of their fructifying streams yet, excepting in the neighbourhood of one or two of the paper mills, there is scarcely an acre of land watered throughout the county. In the northern parts of the county the soil is chiefly clay. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
