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narrow caufeway, paved with fmall bricks put 

 cdgewife into the ground. This was a glad 

 change to our trembling limbs, and now, from, 

 requiring lefs heed to our fteps, and the rain 

 ceafing, we had an opportunity of looking 

 round us to obferve the general appearance of 

 the town and the country. I could have fan- 

 cied myfelf in Holland. The land appeared as 

 one wide flat interfered w}th dykes and canals 

 —the roads mere banks of mud and clay, 

 thrown from the ditches at their fides—-and the 

 houfes bedaubed and painted in tawdry colors, 

 like Dptch toys, giving the whole a ftriking 

 refemblance to the mother country. 



The town is fimply two long rows of 

 houfes, built very diftant from each other, with 

 a wide green in the middle, by way of ftreet. 

 It is more than a mile in length, running in a 

 line from the river back to the foreft — the 

 ynoft inconvenient form perhaps that could 

 have been contrived, as it throws moil of the 

 houfes far away from the river, and deprives 

 them of the great advantages, for tr^de, which 

 they might have had by erecting the houfes 

 parallel with the courfe of the water. To 

 remedy this defe£t canals and ditches have 



