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road from his pits to the town, and he 

 conceives fome hopes of making Belford a 

 port, though at two or three miles diftance 

 from the fea 5 tliis will be of glorious ad- 

 vantage to the town, and open markets for 

 his coals at prefent unthought of. In a 

 word, this ad:ive genius is daring and com- 

 prehenfive in his ideas, penetrating and 

 fpirited in the execution. 



At the fame time that he has cfFedled 

 thefe noble works, he has not been idle in 

 other refpeds. He has built a very hand- 

 fome manfion-houfe for his own refidence, 

 raifed numerous plantations, and erecfted 

 feven new farm-houfes, with all the ne- 

 ceffary offices, the whole fubftantially of 

 brick and tile. ^ ■ 



In the walk of hufbandry he has tried 

 fome experiments, which deferve atten- 

 tion : Much of his land is fo wet as 

 to require draining ; his method of doing 

 which is as follows ; While the field is in 

 tillage, he marks out the low places, where 

 the water lodges, with fticks, and then, 

 with a plough, throws the land from the 

 low fpace \ by beginning at a certain 

 diftance, 5 or 6 yards for inftance from the 

 bottom of it, and continually turning the 

 E 3 furrows 



