The young woman's companion: or, frugal housewife. Containing the most approved methods of pickling, preserving, potting, collaring, confectionary ... Also the art of cookery ... with the complete art of carving, illustrated and made plain by engravings. Likewise instructions for marketing. With the theory of brewing malt liquor. To which are added directions for letter writing, drawing, painting, &c. and several valuable miscellaneous pieces.
- Date:
- 1816
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The young woman's companion: or, frugal housewife. Containing the most approved methods of pickling, preserving, potting, collaring, confectionary ... Also the art of cookery ... with the complete art of carving, illustrated and made plain by engravings. Likewise instructions for marketing. With the theory of brewing malt liquor. To which are added directions for letter writing, drawing, painting, &c. and several valuable miscellaneous pieces. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![Kent is a maritime county, and in the diocese of Canterbury and Rochester; hounded on the north the Thames and the German Ocean, on the east and south-east by that Ocean, and the Straits of Dover, on the south by Sussex and the English Channel, and on the west by Surry. From east to west it is 58 miles, and from north to south 36. It is divided into 5 lathes, con- taining 61 hundreds, 2 cities, 29 market towns, and 408 parishes. In the soil and face of the country there is great diversity. The banks of the Thames are low and marshy, but backed by a range of chalky eminences, sometimes rising to a moderate height: this kind of hard chalky soil, inclining to barrenness, extends to the north-east extremity of the county, and thence round to Dover, exhibiting its nature in the lofty white cliffs, which here bound the island, and produce the striking appearance at sea, which gave it the name of Albion. This county produces, beside the usual objects of agriculture, large quantities of hops; fruit of various kinds, especially apples and cherries, of which there are large orchards; madder for dying; timber in the woody parts; and birch twigs for brooms, which form no inconsiderable arti- cle of traffic in the London markets. The principal rivers, besides the Thames, are the Medway, Darien, Stour, Cray, and Rother. Maidstone is the county town; butCanterbury and Rochester are the principal. The former of which is an archbishop’s see, the metropolitan of all England. The cathedral, a large structure, was once famous for the shrine of Thomas Becket, visited by pilgrims from all parts of Europe. In this cathedral are interred Henry IV. and Edward the Black Prince. The city has 14 parish churches; the remains of many Roman antiquities, and an an- cient castle, with walls and a deep ditch. This city possesses a share of the silk manufacture, introduced by the Walloons, who have here a church under the cathedral. [Walloons, a name formerly given to the in- habitants of Flanders.] Rochester is a bishop’s see, and has, beside the cathedral, 3 parish churches. It has two free-schools, one called the King’s, and the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21532230_0524.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
