DIRECTORY.) STAFFORDSHIRE. EtTINGSH.ALL. 171 which the sulphate of barytes, from its Teadily taking in right of his Duchy of Lancaster is owner -of the -'hroughout its substance the tints of metallic oxides, manor, and the Wedgwood family are .the principal was especially serviceable in the manufacture of white landowners. cameo devices cemented on its surface; of all his works, The soil is principally clay; subsoil, clay and sand the greatest was his magnificent reproduction of the stone. The area is I,200 acres; the population in I90I celebrated Barberini or Portland vase, discovered near of the ecclesiastical parish of St. Matthew was 6,437· Rome between I623-44 : of this superb vase Wedgwood Town Sub-Post, M. 0. &; T. Office..-James Faram, sub- produced, in the first instance, so oopies only, each of postmaster. Letters arrive through Stoke-on-Trent; which, it is said, was sold for as many guineas; the delivered at 7.30 &; II.30 a.m. & 2.30, 5·I5 & 8 p.m.;
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