BILLINGTON, (Staffordshire) a little to the S. of Stafford, near the r. Sow, has the traces of a large fortification; and
a little below it a pool, called Hungry-Pit, in the mud of which the people set up slicks, and fore-judge the price of
corn in the Mts. by the rise and fall of the water upon those sticks. The water here, without regard to the weather,
overflows sometimes in the greatest drought, and the pit is as often empty after great rains.