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riages of pleafure and luxury, and that there are now 

 feventy-two, including poft-chaifes, and thirteen 

 hackney coaches beficles ; and if we allow three 

 horfes to each carriage, upon an average, allow- 

 ing for change, this will make a difference of 219 

 horfes in the city of Norwich only. At that time, 

 there was only one coach to London ; now there 

 are two mail coaches, and two heavy coaches ; 

 and, as there cannot be allowed lefs than fixty 

 liorfes to each mail coach, and fifty to each of 

 the others, this makes an increafe of 170 horfes 

 more. — There is alfo a coach to Lynn, and an- 

 other to Yarmouth, which cannot take lefs than 

 twenty horfes more — here then is a difference, up- 

 on a round calculation, of 409 additional horfes, 

 in what affetts Norwich only ; which, at five acres 

 to a horfe, confume the additional produce of 

 2045 acres. If this mode of calculation be ex- 

 tended to other towns in the county, it will 

 amount to a very great number of acres, in the 

 aggregate, and multiplied by a fimilar increafe in 

 all other parts of England, will fhew, that one 

 great caufe of the dearnefs of provifions, is owing 

 to the number of horfes which are kept more than 

 formerly. 



