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Recovery of loft Arts, to record that they have 
been , in order to make them again fought after and 
reftor’d. 
This City of Norwich affords a remarkable In* 
ftance of an Art we have now loft; I mean the won- 
derful Art, which our Anceftors knew, of cutting 
or rather breaking Flint Stones into uniform Figures, 
of equal Sizes, and with fmooth and plain Surfaces. 
Many Remains of this fort are to be feen in our old 
Buildings ; but none is more artificially and regu- 
larly finilhed than the North Wall of our Bridewell, 
which in Length is one hundred and fourteen Feer, 
and in Height thirty. 
This ancient Stru&ure, as all ingenious Strangers 
agree, is one of the greateft Curiofities of its kind, 
cither in our City or County, and is not perhaps to 
be outdone in any Part of the known World *. It 
was built by William Appleyard , the firft Mayor of 
Norwich , who 342 Years ago, that is, in the Year 
of Chrift 1403, held his Mayoralty there: And, 
what is very ftrange, this Flint -work appears now as 
perfect as if it had been finifhed but Yefterday ; 
whereas the Bricks, which were, after a certain Man- 
ner, wrought-in near the Bottom of the Wall, as a 
Ground- 
* The Gate of the Auflin Triers at Canterbury , that 
of St. Johns Abbey at Colchejler , and the Gate near White- 
Ha ll, Weflminjler , are in the fame Tafte. But the Platform on the 
Top of the Royal Obfervatory at Paris, which, inftesd of being 
leaded, is paved with Flint after this manner, is an Inftance that the 
Trench have, in fome meafure, recovered this Art. 
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