4 6 O/SALISBURY. 
made with brick, through the ftreets, and fupply the inhabi- 
tants with water in the mod: commodious manner. 
The clofe, or inclofure, round the cathedral is large and well 
planted, and adds an awfulnefs to this temple, the lofty and 
elegant flrudture of whofe fpire, has been often mentioned with 
admiration. It is very fmall for its height, yet not fo fmall as 
st. bride’s in fleet-street, the top of which 1 have feen rock 
whilft the bells were ringing. The houfes round the clofe are 
moftly of freeftone, and make the bed; appearance of any in the 
city. 
The air here is efteemed very wholfome, and the adjacent 
country has charms which give Salisbury the preference to 
mod places in England. There are fome people of fortune 
who have made choice of it upon this account, nor efteem it 
the lefs for being eighty miles from the capital. 
Here are feveral manufactures, and the conflux of the Avon, 
willey, and n adder, would have made a navigation for fmall 
vefTels from Christchurch, if the current had been lefs rapid 
below the city. They now bring it within two miles of the 
town. Adieu. 
LETTER XVI. 
T*o Mrs. D * * *• 
Madam, Monday, Auguft 1 1. 
W E were juft on departure this morning, when you was 
blefs’d with ' a fight of your honored friend Mrs. 
m ******. You have reafon to honor her for her good fenfe, 
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