36 September 174B. 



this country, and for that reafon Is exceed- 

 ing good for roofs. For it is not too heavy 

 for the walls, and will ferve for forty or 

 fifty years together. But many people 

 already begin to fear, that thefe roofs will 

 in time be looked upon as having been very 

 detrimental to the city. For being fo very 

 light, moil people who have built their 

 houfes of ftone, or bricks, have been led 

 to make their walls extremely thin. But 

 at prefent this kind of wood is almoft en- 

 tirely deftroyed. Whenever therefore in 

 procefs of time thefe roofs decay, the peo- 

 ple will be obliged to have recourfe to the 

 heavier materials of tiles, or the like, which 

 the walls will not be ftrong enough to bear. 

 The roof will therefore require fupports, 

 or the people be obliged to pull down the 

 walls and to build new ones, or to take 

 other fteps for fecuring them. Several 

 people have already in late years begun to 

 make roofs of tiles. 



Among the publick buildings I will firft 

 mention churches, of which there are fe- 

 veral, for God is ferved in various ways in 

 this country. 



I. The En^Iijh ejlablijhed church ftands 

 in the northern part of the town, at fome 

 diftance from the market, and is the fineft 

 of all. It has a little, inconfiderabl& 



ileeple. 



