2 68 Gen. Roy’s Account of 
Britain, there remains but one point more to be mentioned, 
that is, the meafurement of new bales. In the execution of 
the great map of France, no fewer than feveenteen were mea- 
fured. But, with Rich inftruments as have been ufed in this 
country, a fmaller number would Riffice ; and the belt fitua- 
tions for the purpofe will naturally prefent themfelves in the 
courfe of the operations. # 
Thofe that immediately occur to the Writer ot this Me- 
moir, as likely to be found the mod proper, are the following, 
viz. 
1. On Sedgemoor in Somerfetlhire. 
2. On Boftou Fens in Lincolnlhire. 
3. On the fands on the coaft of North Wales 
between Pen man Mawr and Beaumaris, . v _ 
4. On the fands between Holy Ifland and tpnng tides. 
Berwick upon Tweed, • • * 
5 . On Kincairden and Flanders Mofs, weftward from Stir- 
ling. 
6. On the fands on the coaft of Aberdeen {hire,. 
between the mouth of the Don and Newburgh, I at low water 
7 . The fands on the coaft of Murray, between ffpnng tides. 
the mouths of the rivers Findhorn and Nairn, 
8 On the Moan morafs, inland from the Whiten Head 
at low water 
Otl 
the coaft of Sutherland. 
In the meafurement of thefe bafes, which fhould not be 
lefs than fix, but as often as poffible even eight or ten miles in 
Fngth, there would not be any neceffity for that wonderful 
exactnefs that was requifite for determining the length of the 
firft and fecond bafes on Hounflow Heath and Romney Marlh. 
Suopofing them to be executed with the fteel chain alone within 
a few feet of the truth, it would be perfectly fufficient to Ihew 
