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| | Middlesex |
 | | This county is included in the diocese of London, and province of Canterbury, and forms a deanery and archdeaconry, comprising, with the exception of those parishes in the cities of London and Westminster, and their liberties, seventy parishes, of which twenty-five are rectories, thirty-one vicarages, and fourteen perpetual curacies. |
 | | Besides the Thames, the Lea, and the Coln, Middlesex is watered by several small streams, one of which, called the New River, is artificially brought from Amwell, in Hertfordshire, for the purpose of supplying London with water. |
 | | The principal rivers of Middlesex are the Thames, the Lea, and the Coln, besides which are the smaller streams of the Brent and the Cran. |
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