NORTON, in Cheshire, a good modern alms-house, erected on the site of a priory of canons regular of St Augustin, founded in the year 1135, by William, son of Nigellus. But the latter did not live to complete his design; for Eustace de Burgaville granted to Hugh de Catharine pasture for a hundred sheep, on condition that he finished the church in all respects conformably to the intentions of the founders.
NORTON'S SOUND, on the north-west coast of America, was discovered in Captain Cook's last voyage, and was so named in honour of Sir Fletcher Norton, afterwards Lord Grantley, a near relation of Mr. afterwards Dr. King. It extends as far as north latitude 64. 55. There is no good station for ships, nor even a tolerable harbour, in all the sound. Mr. King, on his landing here, discerned many spacious valleys, with rivers flowing through them, well wooded, and bounded with hills of a moderate height. One of the rivers towards the north-west seemed to be considerable; and he was inclined to suppose, from its direction, that it discharged itself into the sea from the head of the bay. Some of his people, penetrating beyond this into the country, found the trees to be of a larger size the farther they proceeded. Long. 197. 13. E. Lat. 64. 31. N.