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might, with little exertion of art, be made 

 navigable to Pickering, to near Kirkby, and 

 to Hemfley. But a fcqueftcrcd vale, with- 

 out mines or manufavfcories *, and with two 

 fea-pdrts in its neighbourhood, and an inland- 

 port on its margin, requires no farther af- 

 fiftance from water carriage. A removal of 

 the obilrudions of the courfes of the rivers is 

 wanted here rather than more artificial ones. 

 Inclosures. a century ago, the marginal 

 townlhips lay, perhaps, entirely open -, and 

 there are veftiges of common fields in the area 

 of the Vale. The weft marfhes, church pro- 

 perty, have been longer under inclofure ; and 

 the central townfnips were probably inclofed 

 long before thofe of the margin ; the foils 

 of that part being adapted to grafs -, and 

 while the furrounding country lay open, grafs 

 land was of Angular value. At prefent, the 

 entire Vale may be faid to be in a ftate of in- 

 CLOSURE ; a fubjedt which will be fpoken of 

 fully in its proper place. 



• Excepting a manufaftory of coarfe linen, wliick 

 prevail-, more or lefs, I believe, through the feveral 

 difl rifts of Eaft Yorkftiire. 



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