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require to be fupplied with the new roads, made fmce 

 its publication. 



N. B. A copy of the Down Survey, belonging to Sir 

 W. Petty, was, in its paflage to England, taken by a 

 French privateer, and is now in the Library de Richelieu 

 at Paris ; it has been copied by General Vallancey by 

 order of government; the copy is in the Surveyor-gene- 

 ral's office, and often referred to. 



SECT. 7. Mills* 



WATER-MILLS are moil in ufe, but there are alfb 

 feveral wind-mills in this county, for grinding all forts 

 of grain. In general tenants are bound to make their 

 meal at their landlord's mill; and in fome cafes the 

 rights of the miller extend over lands, that are not in 

 the pofleffion of the owner of the mill. The ufual toll 

 paid is the fixteenth, befides the expence of drying; 

 likewife fome little matter to the man, who works the 

 mill, as well as to the perfon, who dries the grain. Con- 

 fiderable improvements have been made in the mode of 

 drying grain, by fubftituting tiled or plated iron kilns, 

 inftead of thofe made with wooden ribs, and covered 

 with ftraw, which take more time and more fuel; many 

 perfons, however, are of opinion, that the oatmeal made 

 after the old manner on ftraw is fweeter, than when 

 the grain is dried on tiles or iron, which certainly de- 

 mand 



