a number of groinings, which, spreading from the centre, form the roof beautifully moulded.  The central column appears to continue through the roof, and is supported without by eight flying buttresses, which rest on the several corners of the building.  Till a few years since this Cross was used as a market-place; but the increased population of the city requiring a more extensive area for that purpose, a large and convenient market-house was, about the year 1807, erected in the North-street; on the completion of which, it was proposed to take down this Cross, then considered as a nuisance.  Fortunately, however, the city was exempted 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.

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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 Caesar’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.

Doctrinae 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.