ORIGINAL DELINEATIONS,

TOPOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND DESCRIPTIVE,

Incorrect pedigrees, futile etymologies, verbose disquisitions, crowds of epi
taphs, lists of landholders, and such farrago, thrown together without me-
thod, unanimated by reflections, and delivered in the most uncouth and
horrid style, make the bulk of our county histories.

GOUGH.

LONDON:

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SHERWOOD AND CO.; J. AND J. CUNDEE; B. AND R. CROSBY AND CO.;
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1813.