433 OF. EMINENT MEN. 



a commodious harbour at Hartley, by cutting a canal through a 

 folid rock, 900 feet long, 54 feet deep, and 30 feet broad; em- 

 ploying about 500 men till it was finifhed. On Tuefday, aoth 

 March, 1764, two fhips failed in, with full fails, for the firft time; 

 and on Thurfday, 22 March, the Warkivorth, a vefTel carrying 13 keels 

 of coals, failed out; being the firft that did fo after it was opened. 



Fifthly, of the patrons of rural and dome/lie arts. It is- with 

 pleafure I can mention, without offence to other gentlemen, 

 Robert Fenivick, of Letnington, near A/nwick, Efq; who, for his laud- 

 able ambition of Planting, hath received a juft mark of diftinction 

 from an honourable fociety, the fociety for the encouragement 

 of arts; being prefemed with a Gold Medal, 1764, for having 

 planted 4100 Scotch firs, 



END of the FIRST VOLUME. 



