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 ever, I have no conception) drains laid in- 

 to them of about 30 inches deep, 4 inches 

 wide at bottom, and 10 at top, filled 12 

 inches deep with ftones, bones, horns, or 

 wood, covered thinly with ftraw or broom, 

 and then the molds and turf laid in again : 

 thefe cut acrofs the lands, about a perch 

 and half afunder, would be a prodigious 

 improvement, even to nearly doubling the 

 value of the land, for they would kill all 

 the aquatic rubbifh, and make the grafs 

 iurprizingly fweeter and finer, both for 

 feeding and hay. 



Hull is a large, and in general a clofe- 

 built town, but fome of the flreets are wide 

 and handfome ; all of them, down to the 

 narrower!: alley, excellently paved and per- 

 fectly clean;- but in winter I fuppofe the 

 latter circumftance not fo great, although 

 there are fcavengers publicly appointed 

 for cleaning them. The houfes in general 

 are well built, and great numbers of them 

 new, but I faw few large ones. The trade 

 carried on here is very great, for a number 

 ot the moll confide rable manufacturing 

 towns in England being litnated on the ri- 

 vers that fall into the Humber, are infinitely 

 advantageous to the commerce of this place ; 

 enabling its merchants to export largely to 

 mod parts of the world, a variety of ma- 

 nufactures at the very firft hand ; and the 



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