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Excerpt from The Gentleman's Magazine Library, Being a Classified Collection of the Chief Contents of the Gentleman's Magazine From 1731 to 1868, Vol. 16: English Topography, Part III (Derbyshire-Dorsetshire) His volume deals with the three counties of Derbyshire, Devonshire and Dorsetshire, each of them, as it happens, being very fully represented in the Old Gentleman's Magazine. The contributions present several points of great interest to the modern inquirer, and which are not to be found in other publications, and it is one of the pleasures of editing this, portion of the Library to find hidden away so many phases of local history which are now of more than local importance. 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.