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fcarcely ever varies in quantity, either in 

 droughts or after the greateft rains. Thefe 

 circumftances render it fo valuable in a 

 commercial view, that although it has but 

 little more than a mile to run before it ar- 

 rives at the fea, the ftream works no lefs 

 than fourteen mills, three of which are in 

 one part of it placed abreaft. 



Proceeding along the road by the lide of 

 the ftream for about a mile, till I came to 

 the marlh, and then crofling it to the right, 

 I found myfelf within fight of Bafingwerk 

 Abbey, which flands in a meadow on an 

 eminence juft above. Thefe mattered time- 

 worn remains, with the furrounding fyca- 

 mores, are from fome points of view highly 

 pidturefque and beautiful. 



The ivy now with rude luxuriance bends 



It's tangled foliage thro' the cloifter'd fpace, 



O'er the green windows mould'ring height afcends, 

 And fondly clafps it in a laft embrace. 



The 



