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go | (Lift of Diffenting Congregations.....Subjcription Book-Clubs. [ July, 
regard to the general character of the 
gnhabitants, being at a diltance from the 
metropolis, and without any great manu- 
factures, they are Kappily uncontami- 
nated with the many vices which con- 
fiantly prevail in more aétive and popu-- 
lous diftriéts. They may be charaéteriz- 
ed- as fimple, honeft, and undefigning 
in their manners, and as being more. 
zonorant, conterted, and happy, than 
exlightened, induftrious, or amb:tions. 
‘ June rs, I went from Lonc SuTTON 
to DowNHAM, in Norfolk, 22 miles. 
In this journey I paffed through a part 
of the lile of Ely, in Cambridgefhire ; 
a Jow fenny country on each fide. On 
the left hand, the fens are an entire 
fwamp, covered with reeds, for many 
miles. Thefe reeds the neighbouring 
inhabitants colleét, and put into ftacks 
for fale; they are principally ufed in 
covering the roofs of buildings, and for 
partitioning and ceiling rooms, inftead of 
faths. 5 
at avery trifling expence, and form the 
moft common means of conveyance. I 
obferved a great deal of hemp and flax 
growing, particularly inthe ifle of Ely. 
Fnel is conveniently got in the bogs, or 
mofly {wamps, by the following means: 
narrow witches, dug out from the dry. 
ground, extend to thofe parts of the fens 
where the peat is beft, and eafeft pro- 
cured ; thefe ditches become. filled with 
water, and navigeble for long narrow 
boats, in which they bring the peats to 
folid ground. 
DownHamM, in Norfolk, ftands upon 
rifng ground, by which the fens feem to 
be terminated in that direction; it is a 
fmall market-town, without trade or 
manufacture, but ftands in a fine fituation, 
furrounded by fertile fields, which, 
however, on one fide, are fubjeét to inun- 
dations from the fea; and they have 
actually fuifered much this fpring, from 
being flooded by the breaking of the fea 
bank. [ To be continued. | 
y SSS 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
List oF DissenrinG CoONGREGA- 
TIONS (CONTINUED). 
HEREFORDSHIRE. 
ROMYARD - - - 
Hereford 
Ledbury - - - - 
Peommntter™ <0 3) ~~ 2 
Longtown - - - - 
Rofs - a bs 
Ryford - -* 

Baptits. - - 
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‘go Aas ie tc ang a 
Canals are made in this country 
Notre.—It may be fufpected, that this lif is 
‘deieétive, as the members of Diffenting congre- 
gations in this county, are fo inconfiderable ; 
however, fuch fufpicions are without foundation, - 
as IJ believe the lift will be found accurate But, 
befides thefe cight congregations which belong — 
to either of the three denominations of Diffen- 
ters, there is in Hereford a congregation of 
Methodifis, in Lady Huntingdon’s conneétion. 
And, at Leomintter, a congregation of Quakers, 
and another of Moravians. 
HERTFORDSHIRE. 
Afowell - ane Be i had 
Barkway - - = 
Buntingfora x = ae fo = 
Berkhampftead - _ . 
Bendifh = - 3 
Box-Lane - <i ra 
Chefhunt - - - pos 
Codtcote 
Hertford - - eer = 
Hodde don - zs $3 
Hampttead = “ z 
Hitchin - - = ut 
Kingfnorth - = 
Red- Hill - f 
Sanicon - - = 
Bifhop’s Storford s = e 
Tring b B a 
Mare = = ee 
Watford ~ is 2 
Lerche Or te a Ol tes wa a ate me 
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[ Io be continued. ] 
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To the Editor of the Moxthly Magasine. 
Silk", ‘ 
J HAVE lately been much gratified by 
the perufal of a feries of well-written 
letters, which have appeared in the 
ScorTs CHRONICLE, figned by “ 4 
Citizen of Glafgow,’ upon the fubject 
of Book-Cxiugs, or SUBSCRIPTION 
XEADING-SOCIETIES. It appears that 
a very confiderable number of thefe 
excellent infticutions have recently been 
fet on foot in various diftriéts of North 
Britain, and that they are already begin- 
ning to produce the happieft effects upon 
the ftate of knowledge among the mid- 
dling and laborious clafles inthat country. 
Is it not, fir, much to be defired, that 
in your extenfively ufeful. Witfcellany, 
the bet plans of literary focieties of this 
popular kind fhould be publithed, and 
that intelligent and public-{pirited perfons 
fhould be invited to promote, by all the 
means in their power, the eftabiifhment 
of various degrees of them, in. every 
diftriG of the ifland? Iam, vour’struly, 
Leeds, Fuly 12,1797. . BENEVOLUS. 
