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naftic. A fufficient evidence, this, of the 

 amenity and natural fertility of the Diftrid. 



II. The STATE OF SOCIETY. 

 The particulars to be noticed, under this 

 head, are 



1. The towns of the Diflrict. 



2. Its villages and hamlets. 



3. Its inhabitants. 



4. Their habitations. 



5. Their ordinary food. 



6. The fuel mod ufed. 



7. The employments of working 



people. 



8. Provident Societies. 



I. The chief TOWN of the Diftrid is 

 Plymouth ; which, with the new town ad- 

 joining to the dock- yard, and familiarly 

 called Bock, together with the village of 

 Stonehoiifey which now nearly unites the 

 new and the old towns, may be faid to 

 form, at once, the port and the market 

 of the Diflria. 



T^aviftock, however, in point of fituation, 



and heretofore, perhaps, in that of ref- 



C 4 pedtability. 



