from the reproach of such a proceeding by the public spirit of some of the members of the corporation, who purchased several houses on the north side of the Cross, in order to widen that part of the street, by their demolition. * * * * * THE TOPOGRAPHER COUNTY COLLECTIONS. (_For the Mirror._) Kent. He that will not live long, Let him dwell at Murston, Tenham, or Tong. _Queen Elizabeth's Gun at Dover._ "O'er hill and dale I throw my ball, Breaker my name of mound and wall." Deal famed much vaunts of new turrets high, A place well known by Cæsar's victory. Leland. Dover, Sandwich, and Winchelsea, Rumney and Rye the Five Ports be. Hampshire--Sir Bevis of Southampton. Bevis conquered Ascupart And after slew the Boar, And then he crossed beyond the seas To combat with the Moor. Westmoreland. I came to Lonsdale where I staid At hall, into a tavern made, Neat gates, white walls, nought was sparing, Pots brimful, no thought of caring. They eat, drink, laugh, are still mirth making-- Nought they see, that's worth care taking. _Drunken Barnaby's Journal._ Cheshire. Chester of Castria took the name, As if that Castria were the same. SHROPSHIRE. "To all friends round the Wrekin." LINCOLNSHIRE.--STAMFORD. Doctrinæ studium, quod nunc viget ad vada Boum Tempore venture celebrabitur ad vada Saxi. Science that now o'er Oxford sheds her ray Shall bless fair Stamford at some future day. _Merlin._ STAFFORDSHIRE. Or Trent who like some earth-born giant spreads His thirsty arms along the indented meads. _Milton._ And beauteous Trent that in himself enseams (fattens) Both thirty sorts of fish and thirty sundry streams. _Spenser._ BERKSHIRE.--ABINGDON. (_From Piers Plowman's MSS. 1400._) And there shall come a king and confess you religious, And beat you as the Bible telleth, for breaking of your rule, And then shall the Abbot of Abingdon and all his issue for ever Have a knock of a king, and incurable the wound. WILTSHIRE.--SALISBURY CATHEDRAL, As many days as in one year there be, So many windows in this church you see, As many marble pillars here appear As there are hours throughout the fleeting year, As many gates as moons one here does view, Strange tale to tell, yet not more strange than true. A noble park near Sarum's stately town, In form a mount's clear top call'd Clarendon; There twenty groves, and each a mile in space, With grateful shades, at once protect the place. _Chippenham.--On a Stone._ Hither extendeth Maud Heath's Gift, For where I stand is Chippenham Clift. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. An owl shall build her nest upon the walls of Gloucester, And in her nest shall be brought forth an ass.