Author: [J. SMITH]
Title: England at One View.
Description: B.D. Cousins, c. 1838. Large broadside 755 x 500 mm. printed on newsprint, a little browned. A statistical look at England and Wales leaning on the Parliamentary Census of 1831 and McCulloch's Statistics of the British Empire [1837]. The details given are wide ranging, separated into counties and include figures for agricultural produces, average rents, populations, etc. "Monmouthshire - Agriculture tolerable and improving. Part defended by dykes from the sea. Tillage performed chiefly by oxen - cattle good, chiefly of the Hereford breed. Mules much used. Stock of sheep 175,000 - wool packs 2,000. Average size of farms 140 acres - rent 12s 9d. Minerals coal iron, and limestone. Coal employs several thousand men, and iron about 3,000> preparation of tin 300> iron wire, 60> colours 70> shoemakers 632> tailors, 398. Contains six hundreds, 127 parishes. Returns four members - two for country, two for Monmouth..."

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