Don, a river of the West Riding of Yorkshire, rising in the Penistone moors on the borders of Derbyshire and Cheshire, and running 70 miles south-eastward and north-eastward past Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, and Thorne, till it falls into the Ouse at Goole. It is navigable below Sheffield by the aid of artificial cuts and canals.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 53
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