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Wheat-ftraw, being of lefs value, in Nor- 

 folk, than in moft other places ; owing to the 

 great quantity of reed uied in thatching; lefs 

 care is obferved in thrafhing wheat, here, 

 than in places where it is either fold for litter, 

 as about London, or where it is in general ufc 

 for thatch, as in moft parts of the kingdom : 

 even when it is intended for thatch, it is 

 thraflied rough, and {hook off heads-and-tails ; 

 it being the univerfal pradice of thatchers, 

 here, to blend their ftraw, and draw their 

 jhatch. 



X. Market. — This, alfo, has been noticed 

 in the general articles : fuffice it, therefore, 

 here to add, that Norfolk abounds with corn- 

 mills ; — the fmall ftrcams which are very 

 abundant in this country, are convenient rc- 

 fources for water-mills : befides which, num- 

 bers of windmills are difperfed over the face 

 of the country •, fome of them very capital and 

 coftly. One lately ered:ed in this Diftridt is 

 faid to have coft twelve hundred pounds. 



For obfervations on the effecl of herbery on 

 \yjieat, fee Min. 13. 



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