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CHAP. XIV. 

 POLITICAL ECONOMY. 



SECT. I. ROADS. 



DURING the long period in which Norfolk was 

 content with the reputation given to her roads by the ob- 

 servation of Charles the Second,* without having re- 

 course to the assistance of Parliament, in the establishment 

 of turnpikes, her ways were bad enough, though not so 

 bad as in heavier soils : she has, however, in the last 20 

 years, made considerable exertions — turnpike gates are 

 eredled in all the principal communications ; these are 

 kept in good repair, and the roads, in general, must be 

 considered as equal to those of the most improved counties. 

 In the line from Dereham, 30 miles to Harleston, the 

 direflion is diagonally across all the Norwich roads, yet 

 I found this road as good as a turnpike. 



SECT. II. — CANALS. 



Very little has been efFecSled in Norfolk by means of 

 canals ; merely artificial ; but some rivers have been ren- 



* That Norfolk ihould be cut into roads for all the r?st of England. 



dered 



