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e contra, runmng fcmetimes, a Body of Eight Foot 
Square, for about Six or Seven Hours, during the Ebb. 
The ufe of thefe Dreins and Sluices is vinble ;« the 
Fenns fmce Mr, Camden si'imt being grown firm Land; 
and the Proverb of all the Carts that come to Crowland 
are (hod with Silver,, is now obfolete ; moft of thofc 
Ponds wherein fuch quantities of Fowl were formerly 
taken (which they called their Corn-Fields) being now 
Prophetically turned into fuch, yielding great Crops of 
Oats and Coai-Seed, and Stilts are now grown cut of 
Falhion : alfo in the reft of Holland^ you (hall feldom 
find any Quav^-mires, or Quick-lands, as our Author 
mentions; yet for all this, many ftill continue the old 
cuftom to work their Horfes unfhod. 
Pafture-Ground lying between the Sea and thefe 
Fens they are very Fertil, feeding a great Number of Fat 
Oxen and Sheep, which Weekly are fent to London in 
Droves; their Wool, both to Plenty end Goodnefs, 
much like to the Marfhes ; Tallow here is in good Plen- 
ty, which fupplieth London and other places. Here 
each Town hath an Outfa! by Dreins and Goats to keep 
them dry. 
Near unto rhe Fens ftands Bojlon^ now not fo remar- 
kable for Trade, but for the Church Steeple and River, 
may compare (probably) with any Private Parifli in 
England. The Church looks like a beautiful Princefs 
smong a Company of fair Ladies, no County yielding 
fairer Churches ; and what is more obfervable, not 
a Stone fit for Building in all this Tracb. The Giurch 
is very Lofty ^ and Cealed with Irijh Oak, neatly 
Wrought ; the body is One hundred Foot wide the 
Steeple is a Tower of Two hundred eighty five Foot 
high, Odangular towards the top of curious Stone 
Carved Work, ftanding not above Twelve Yards from 
the KmtWitbam ; 'tis but Thirty two Foot wide» and 
but 
