P.'s of East Retford had been transferred to Birmingham in 1826, it is
curious to consider.
SHEFFIELD.
The approach to Sheffield from Lincolnshire is through a defile, and over a
long lofty viaduct, which affords a full view of the beautiful amphitheatre
of hills by which it is surrounded.
The town is situated in a valley, on five small streams--one the "Sheaf,"
giving the name of Sheffield, in the southern part of the West Riding of
Yorkshire, only six miles from Derbyshire.
The town is very ugly and gloomy; it is scarcely possible to say that there
is a single good street, or an imposing or interesting public
building,--shops, warehouses and factories, and mean houses run zigzagging up
and down the slopes of the tongues of land, or peninsulas, that extend into
the rivers, or rather streamlets, of the Porter, the Riveling, the Loxley,
the Sheaf, and the Don. Almost all the merchants and manufacturers reside in
the suburbs, in villas built of white stone on terraces commanding a lovely
prospect.
The picturesqueness, the wild solitude of the immediate neighbourhood of
Sheffield, amply compensates for the grimy gloom in which the useful and
disagreeable hardware trade is carried on.
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