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BUILDING. 



'Bricks, per thoufarid, from 8j. 6^. to 20 s. 



Oak timber, 8 ^. to 2 s. 



Afh ditto, 8^. 



Mafon per day, i j-. 6 d. 



Carpenter ditto, is. 6 d, 



I forgot to tell you, that one or two fen- 

 fible farmers in this neighbourhood have 

 of late come into the way of making hol- 

 low drains for the improvement of their 

 wet lands. They dig them from two feet 

 to three or four deep, fet two bricks on edge 

 along the bottom, and lay another over 

 them in this manner, PI. IV. Fig. i. They 

 are then filled up with the moulds. 

 The digging, laying, and filling coft 4^. 

 a rood. 



From Aitringham I took the road to 

 Manchejier, with defign, not only to 

 view the manufactures of that town, 

 but to make it my head quarters from 

 thence to go the tour of his Grace the 

 Duke of Bridg'UDaters navigation, about 

 which fuch wonders are abroad ■■, if only 

 half are true, I fliall be not a little en- 

 tertained. 



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