Malcolm, James Peller: First Impressions Or Sketches from Art and Nature, Animate and Inanimate (London, 1807)

bristol.

situation op bristol.
The old city stands on a comparative level,
but the new extends up the East and South-east
lides of very conliderable hills. The Avon enters
it from the South-east, and proceeds in that direc-
tion to St. Peter's hospital; whence it ssows near
due South to Ratcliff, then West, and afterwards
in a serpentine line to Rownham meads; whence
it turns again, and passes St. Vincent's rocks to the
North-north-west.
The Froom enters Bristol at the North-east
quarter, and approaches the Avon near St. Peter's
hospital; where Bridge, St. Peter's, and Wine
streets, intervene between them. It then pro-
ceeds North-west, South-west, and South, till it
falls into the Avon, at the base of St. Michael's
hill; sorming a long projection of land, covered
by Queen-square and several streets.
Whatever may be the beauties of the shores of
the Avon beyond Bristol, truth compels me to
say, the river by no means improves them. The
tide, which rises even thirty feet within the city,
brings with it an astonishing quantity of soil from
the Severn. This deposits, and forms vast ssoping
banks, extremely diigusting at low water, when
the Avon becomes a mere canal, not more in
n breadth