Excerpt from Topography of Great Britain, or British Traveller's Pocket Directory, Vol. 8: Being an Accurate and Comprehensive Topographical and Statistical Description of All the Counties in England, Scotland, and Wales, With the Adjacent Islands; Illustrated With Maps of the Counties; Containing Hertfordshire and Essex Such is the irregularity of the boundaries of this county that it is impossible to say what is its form that of an ellipisis is, however, the form to which it most nearly approaches. The longest axis lay ing in a direction nearly north-east and south-west, the shortest south-east and north-west. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.