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MINUTES 



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FARMERS. 



MARRAM 

 BANK.S. 





high -water, and defended from it only by the 

 Marram Banks, which are broken into gaps at 

 every two or three hundred yards ; fo that in 

 ftormy weather the fea rufhes through, and fre- 

 quently does confiderable damage by overflow- 

 ing the country. Mr. B. told us, that he had 

 four acres of very fine cole-feed fvvept down 

 daring the late tempefluous weather. 



His land, however, which lies out of the 

 water's way, is rich and fertile in a high degree ; 

 and Mr. B. it is fa id, gets exceedingly fine 

 crops from it ; fo that it is probable, notwith- 

 ilanding the irregularity with which his affairs 

 are conducted, and that want of attention to 

 minutiae which mud necefTarily occur in 

 fuch a boundlefs fceije of bufmefs, Mr. B. 

 does not injure his fortune by farming; for it 

 feems generally allowed that no farmer gets his 

 work done/0 eberp as Mr. B. 



Marram Banks. The country towards the 

 coaft from Happingfbro* to Winterton, about tea 

 miles, is a dead fiat; and, to the eye, appears 

 to lie lower than the fea at high water. B/ 

 the fide of the beach runs a range of broken, 

 irregular hillocks, from five to fifteen or 

 twenty feet high, and from fifty to upwards of 

 a hundred yards in width at the bale ; com- 



