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 obferved in Suffolk. This land lets at about 

 oj-. per acre. I fhould not forget to re- 

 mark, that over all this country I faw none 

 but very flovenly hufbandry ; no turnips 

 hoed ; the beans all full of weeds ; much 

 barley and oats the fame ; and all their 

 lands wanting draining even to the being 

 over-run with rufhes, flags, fedge, &c. &>c. 

 For fome miles around Hull, the land is 

 all flat, and interfered by dykes alone, 

 which feem full of water, notwithstanding 

 its being the middle of fummer ; but the 

 part from Cottlngham to Hull is now drain- 

 ing, and will probably be laid fo dry as to 

 take the water from out thofe dykes. No 



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much} a broad arch or two thrown over it, well 

 covered with earth and planted with flirubs, 

 would take off the ill erTed of crofting this path. 

 In the water is the imitation of a rock, every kind 

 of which is totally unconfonant with the pleafing 

 and agreeable emotions of the gently-winding 

 ftream, and fmoothly-fhaven banks ; befides, 

 any rock worth feeing would fwallow up this 

 water. In the next place here are fome urns, 

 an ornament, when properly difnofed, of great 

 efficacy ; but clofe, (haded and fequeftered fpots, 

 whereon the eye falls by accident, as it were, 

 are the places for urns, and not open lawns, full 

 in view, and to be walked around. It is furpriz- 

 ing, that the ideas of imitating nature, in reject- 

 ing a (trait line for the water, and giving its 

 banks the wave of a real ftream, mould not be 



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