With Thirty-two Illustrations and Two Maps. "SOMERSET is one of the S.W. counties of England. On the N. it is washed by the Bristol Channel, on the N.E. the Avon, like a silver streak, divides it from Gloucestershire, it is bordered on the E. by Wiltshire, its S.E. neighbour is Dorset, and on the S.W. it touches Devon.