Excerpt from A Description of England and Wales, Vol. 4: Containing a Particular Account of Each County, With Its Antiquities, Curiosities, Situation, Figure, Extent, Climate, Rivers, Lakes, Mineral Waters, Soils, Fossils, Caverns, Plants and Minerals, Agriculture, Civil and Ecclesiastical Divisions, Cities This, is a large and populous county, bounded on the fouth by the river Thames, which feparates it from Kent, on the weft by Herrfordfhire and Middlefex 3 on the north by Cambridgefhire and Suffolk; and on the eaf't by the German ocean. It is forty-(even miles in length from call to weft, forty-three from north to fouth, and 150 in Cir cumference; Chelmsford, which is nearly in the middle of the county, is fituated twenty-eight miles north eaft of London. The air of this county is generally elteemed uh healthy, efpecially to {trangers yet in great part of the wettern and northern divifions, it is as good as in any Other part of the ifland. Indeed many parts of it, particularly the hundreds of Rochford and Bengy, border upon the (ea and the Thames, and have a rotten, oozy foil the coun try is likewife full of fens and marlhes, which producing noifome and pernicious vapours, fub jeet the inhabitants to agues that are very hard to cure, and thofe other diforders that arife'from a. Moiit and putrid atmofphere. 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.