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"from fuch a communication with diftant markets. 

 " The eftimate of faving in the price of land car- 



• riage alone, is not exaggerated if taken at 200,000!. 



• a year, befides the faving to arife in the various 



• articles of merchandize, now carried in wagons 

 " to and from London. To detnonflrate this, it 

 " will be enough to flate, that the price of land 

 "carriage from Thetford (fituate on the Brandon 

 "river) to London, or back, is 4I. a ton; and by 

 " the propofed canal, the calculation was under 

 "20s. — a faving of near eighty percent. The like 

 " faving would have been made on all the articles 

 " of trade, extending to the city of Norwich, and 

 " every other place north of Thetford. 



"If this bufinefs is again brought forward, I 

 " hope and truil there will be no exertions of in- 

 " fluence, to obflruct a canal that mufl be fo advan- 

 " tageous to the public, and, at the fame time, en- 

 " courage the agriculture of a county, that has al- 

 " ready diftinguimed itfelf, beyond any other in the 

 " kingdom." 



Mr. Colhoun adds, " that white bricks, fimilar 

 " to thofe of Norfolk Houfe, are made near the 

 "propofed canal, and would be delivered at one- 

 "half the prefent price of that article in London." 



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