Excerpt from Topography of Great Britain, or British Traveller's Pocket Directory, Vol. 15: Being an Accurate and Comprehensive Topographical and Statistical Description of All the Counties in England, Scotland, and Wales, With the Adjacent Islands, Containing North Wales and ShropshireAs to myself, I shall always look back with pleasure on the large portion of time employed in travelling and collecting materials, as spent in a manner the most agreeable to my own decided taste and wishes, but such of my readers as look for highly polished periods, and that perfect accuracy in a work of general description, must be informed, it is absolutely unattainable, there foie will probably on re¿ection be content with an ih ferior degree of merit in a production of assiduity and diligence.The distinction, also, that I have observed between minute and super¿uous illustrations, will not, I trust be deemed improper for bad I deeply engaged myself in enumerating the several vicissitudes of each town, vil lage, hamlet, castle, and lordship, or been minute in having the genealogies and histories of the several fami lies inserted to which they have at different periods ap pertained, or scrutinized the origin of every local custom, dived far into antiquity, revived vulgar traditions, or pointed out the errors and defects of my predecessors, every county would, at least, have required a volume of itself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.