The Universal Geography Earth And Its Inhabitants volume 4 the British Isles
The Universal Geography Earth And Its Inhabitants volume 4 the British Isles
Elise Reclus
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— Sheffield. Scale 1 : 113. 000. Railway connecting South-western Yorkshire with Manchester. Thurhtone, Penistone, and Wortley are small towns on the Upper Don, which in its onward course traverses the famous manufacturing town of Sheffield. It is admirably seated in the midst of a fine amphitheatre of hills, at the point of junction of five rivers, and above the stores of coal which furnish its numerous factories with the fuel indispensable to them. Sheffield, originally a small feudal village..., has been for centuries a place of iron-workers, and Chaucer mentions the " thwytels " which were made there. Soon after the Eeiormation skilled Flemish metal-workers settled in the town, and greatly contributed towaras 200 THE BEITISn ISLES. Its prosperity. But it is only since the beginning of the present century that this Yorkshire town has won the first place in the world for its cutlery and steel. Its population is seven times greater now than what it was in 1801, and continues to increase at the same rate.
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