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To Duncomb Park, by Kirby, &c. Crofs, 

 and very bad, except through Mr. 

 JDuncomb's eftate, which is made by 

 himfelf, and incomparably well. A 

 moft admirable road. 



From Newto?i to Stokejley, in Cleveland. 

 Crofs ; and extremely bad. You are 

 obliged to crofs the Moors they call 

 Black Hanibledon, over which the 

 road runs in narrow hollows that 

 admit a fouth country chaife with 

 fuch difficulty, that I reckon this 

 part of the journey made at the ha- 

 zard of my neck. The going down 

 Into Cleveland is beyond all defcrip- 

 tion terrible ; for you go through 

 fuch fteep, rough, narrow, rocky 

 precipices, that I would fincerely 

 advife any friend to go an hundred 

 miles about to efcape it. The name 

 of this pafs is very proper, Scarth- 

 necky that is, fcare nick, or frighten 

 the devil. 



To Kirkleatha?n. Crofs. This road is a 

 rare inftance of the public fpirit of 

 the gentlemen of Cleveland t who 

 determined not only to convert the 

 worft roads in England into good 

 ones, but to effect it without the 

 lead tax upon the traveller. They 

 are doing it by fubfcription. It was 



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