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get upon the beach, it is morally impoffible, iri iti 

 prefent (late, to haul it up. However, I am fo fully 

 convinced of the excellency of fca fand as a manure 

 for clay lands, that had I but one acre adjoining 

 the fca, I would make a road through it, though it 

 fhould cofl: me one hundred pounds. By fea fand, 

 you will obferve I mean the iand upon our exten- 

 five Ihore* which is daily overflowed by the tide, 



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• The mouth of the river Parret is near a mile over, in which was 

 an ifland of about eighty acres, called in the old maps Dunbal Ifland, 

 having a large river on the weft, and a fmall river on the eaft, in each 

 of which the velTels pafled and repaiTed. It happened in the hard froJft 

 anno 1739, that the fmall river war filled with fuch vaft' quantities of 

 ice that it turned the current into the large river ; and before the ice 

 melted it was fo much covered with flub and flime as to prevent the 

 low water from pafling, and is at this time nearly level with the land, 

 infomuch that our youth pay very little regard to the tellimony of their 

 fathers, when informed by tliem that they have feen Ihips fail on the 

 fpot which is at prefent good pafture land. 



Since my remembrance, another ifland is formed near a mile in 

 length, having at prefent much grafs upon it, and which I believe will 

 in a few years be united with the former. Not far from the north 

 end of this laft ifland the great river was feparated into three fmall 

 ones ; the firft divided Burnham and Berrow Strand from a large 

 track of fand called the Gore ; the fecond divided the Gore from a 

 lefs quantity of fand, called the Lark-fands ; and the third divided the 

 Lark-fands from the Start-Point. This laft is alraoft filled with fand 

 and flub: the fecond river is widened, and is now the only one in 

 which fliips pafs ; for the firft river is fo much ftopped up, that the 

 Gorc-fands are now united with Burnham and Berrow-Point, and 

 our fifliermen inform me, that, with the aififtance of their flime-carts, 

 they can go near ten miles ftrait weft into St. George's Channel at 

 dead low water, when the tide is run out the loweft pofiible. 



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