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The " Leat," or made brook, 

 which fuppljes Plymouth with water, is 

 one of the moH: ufeful and ftriking works 

 of the Diftrid:. An account of it will ap- 

 pear in the Minutes.' 



Public corn mills are ufually fup- 

 plied with water, by means of fimilar leats. 



Thefe moft antient of public works ftill 

 temaLn, here, in their priftine ftate. The 

 poor take their own corn to the mill, and 

 there drefs it, themfelves ; the miller find- 

 ing them drefling fieves j and the farmer 

 of whom it is purchafed, a horfe, to take it 

 and the female who dreffes it, to the mill* 

 Cufloms which mark veiy ftrongly the 

 fimplicity of manners, that ftill prevails, in 

 this remote part of the Ifland. 



"Passages," or public ferries^ 

 acrofs the eftuaries, are num^erous. 



The BRIDGES are few, and, in general, 



mean. 



The ROADS of Weft Devonfhire are, at 

 prefent, moft remarkable for their fteep- 

 nefs, Lefs than half a century ago, they 

 were ir.e re gullies, worn by torrents in the 

 rocks ; which appeared in fteps, as flair- 

 cafes. 



