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"A
county of England, 47 miles in length, and 29 in breadth;
bounded by Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Berkshire, Warwickshire,
and Northamptonshire. It is divided into 14 hundreds, which
contain 1 city, 12 market towns, 280 parishes, and 51 villages.
The air is sweet, mild, pleasant, and healthy, for which reason
it contains several gentlemen's seats; and the soil, though
various, is fertile in corn and grass, and the hills are shaded
with woods. It is also a great sporting country, there being
abundance of game preserved here. It has no manufactures of
any account, being chiefly agricultural. Its chief city is
Oxford. Population, 161,643. It sends 9 members to parliament."
-- James Barclay's "Complete and Universal English Dictionary",
1842
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