Stockton on Tees
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Identifier: westmorelandcumb00rose Title: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidwestmorelandcumb00rose">Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose Year: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1835">1835 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1830">1830s) Authors: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorRose__Thomas__topographer">Rose, Thomas, topographer https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorAllom__Thomas__1804_1872">Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorPickering__George__d__1857">Pickering, George, d. 1857 Subjects: Publisher: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon__etc_____H__Fisher__R__Fisher____P__Jackson">London [etc.] : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson Contributing Library: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries">University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorInternet_Archive">Internet Archive View Book Page: https://archive.org/stream/westmorelandcumb00rose/westmorelandcumb00rose#page/n208/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Book Viewer About This Book: https://archive.org/details/westmorelandcumb00rose" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Catalog Entry View All Images: https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidwestmorelandcumb00rose">All Images From Book Click here to https://archive.org/stream/westmorelandcumb00rose/westmorelandcumb00rose#page/n208/mode/1up" rel="noreferrer nofollow">view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: orts of the Baltic is con-siderable. At the Reformation, it was a village so despicable that the best house in itcould scarcely boast of any thing better than clay walls and a thatched roof; and yet, nearfifty years ago, there came in one year to the port of London, as appears from the Custom-house books, seventy-five vessels from thence; and the trade has been progressivelyincreasing ever since. Considerable quantities of salt provisions, corn, flour, lead, allum,&c. are sent coast-wise to London; and large supplies of hams, pork, and leather areshipped at this port for the metropolitan market. The fisheries in the Tees river are veryproductive, particularly that of salmon, which is protected by an act passed in the firstyear of George I. The commerce of Stockton has been materially increased and facili-tated by the formation of a cut, or canal, two hundred and twenty yards long, at Portrack,a little below the town, across a narrow neck of land, by which a circuit of almost three Text Appearing After Image: Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work. -
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