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corn. The Derwent being made navigable 

 many years before the navigation of the Hull 

 was extended to Driffield, Malton was once 

 the principal market. But, at prefent, Drif- 

 field, an improving place, takes the lead. Ac 

 Malton, the corn-trade is in the hands of a 

 few merchants, who can generally make their 

 o\vn price. At Driffield, the buyers are nu- 

 merous, and moftly faflors, who purchafe 

 by commiflion. By the low commiffion of 

 fixpcnce a quarter, fome of the factors are 

 faid to make three or four hundred pounds 

 a-year ; a ftriking evidence this of the great 

 quantity of corn which is grown upon thcfe 

 Wolds. 



XVI. TURNEPS. The turnep-crop may be 

 faid to be (till a new thing to the Wolds ; not 

 more than of twenty years (landing, though 

 fingularly adapted to the foil ; and notwith- 

 ftanding it has in Norfolk, whofe coaft may 

 almoft be feen from thefe hills, been an efta- 

 blifhed objed: of culture more than a century ! 



At prefent this crop is in full eftimation, 

 being confidcred as the mod folid bafis of 

 Wold-hulbandry. 



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