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WILTS, or Wiltshire an inland county, bounded, on the NW and the N, by Gloucestershire; on the E, by Berkshire and Hampshire; on the S, by Hampshire and Dorset; on the W, by Somerset.

Broad cloths, and other kinds of woollen goods are made at Bradford, Devizes, Heytesbury, Chippenham, Westbury, Trowbridge, Melksham, and some other places; carpets, of excellent quality, at Wilton; hair-cloth, at Warminster; dowlas at Mere; fustians, at Aldbourn; silk goods, at Devizes and Salisbury; gloves, at Swindon; cutlery, at Salisbury; and Wiltshire and Kennet ales, in various places.