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other populous places quite intolerable. When the Body putrifys 
it fills the Stagnant Air in those places with corrupt particles of 
matter, which from the human Body nothing is more offensive & 
in Epidemical Distempers nothing worse.” To remedy the evils 
arising from intra-mural interments, “ I would have a Place 
appointed for every parish at a convenient Distance, large enough 
and well inclosed, which should he made use of for this purpose 
& nothing else.” [Norwich adopts this idea about a century 
after the above was written.] 
Cruelty to Animals. 
“ I am satisfied there’s none of our actions in this life wants 
reforming more than the cruel usage we daily see inflicted towards 
Brutes. One kind of Cruelty is practised daily among us here in 
Norfolk, which I am apt to think the wildest Savages in America 
would tremble at, I mean the continual bleeding of the Calves 
designed for slaughter for the use of man, to describe the method 
would strike the hardest Heart with terror. I would have every 
Person who wantonly kills or torments any Animal have adequate 
Punishment inflicted upon him according to the barbarity of the 
Crime.” 
On tiie Utilization of Waste Products. 
This part of the essay is of much interest, but time and space 
will not allow me to do more than glance at it. I must, however, 
call your attention to one or two portions of it. 
“Prom the refuse or pickings of stuffs is produced a very good 
warm Cloth called ‘ Fear nothing.’ [I have not been able to ascer- 
tain what kind of cloth this was.] From Tailor’s Shreds (a Late 
Invention) is produced a Soft downy Substance for Seafaring Men’s 
Beds.” A foot-note states that, “ There is an Engine for this uso 
lately erected at Helsdon within turn miles of Norwich.” After 
giving many other instances in which so-called waste has been 
made a source of profit, he observes, that “ there is the greatest 
probability of there being numberless Areanums yet lying dormant 
in the unknown properties of Matter, which if carefully examined 
into may one time or other richly pay us for all our trouble of 
searching them out.” 
