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The new Bristol guide: : containing its antiquities, deduced from the best authorities: historic annals from William the Conqueror 1066 to 1799; progress, present state, navigation, trade, buildings, public edifices, churches, chapels, meeting-houses, schools, hospitals, charities, and other particulars, informing and useful to travellers, and those who visit or reside in this ancient and extensive city. Also, distinct and improved accounts of the Hotwells and Clifton. Descriptions of cities, towns, seats, antiquities and curiosities in the vicinity, and counties of Glocester and Somerset. Brief biography of some eminent natives of Bristol: memoirs of Chatterton the juvenile poet, &c. To which are added, list of bankers; regulation of general and penny posts; of hackney coaches; and directions for passing the Severn, at Aust and the new passages