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proofs of the great improvement which 
moft part of the unproduétive lands of 
this kingdom are fufceptible of ; moraf- 
fes, bogs, fens, Sc. when thoroughly 
drained, become the bet ground, and 
are fo much clear gain to owners, as well 
as to the community at large. The 
drainage of fome of the fens I late- 
ly traverfed, is effected by large engines, 
formed partly like wind-mills. Thefe 
are erected in convenient fituations ; 
the wings refemble thofe of wind-mills, 
and move by the fame means, The ob- 
ject of them is to communicate motion 
to a large broad wheel, with a fort of 
leaves, which moves partly in the wa- 
ter, raifes it up, and turns it over into 
a drain, banked on each fide, high 
enough to carry it off. To thefe en- 
fines the water 1s drawn byopen drains, 
inteifecting the country in every direc. 
tion thereto. 
I faw and paffed Lowstore, a lit- 
tle on the left ; it ftands ina very naked 
fituation, and is remarkable for being 
the moft eafterly town in the kingdom. 
June 30, I_ went from YarRMOU1H 
to WRANGFORD, in Suffolk, 20 miles. 
‘This is a pleafant country, producing 
in abundance all forts of grair, peas, and 
beans. The roads are excellent, being 
tade of fine gravel. Theefcil is partly 
intermixed with fand, but generally has 
a large proportion of loamy clay ; the 
furfece is leyel, and the country rather 
weody than otherwife. A fort of blueifh 
clay marl is found and ufed here in great 
quantities. ‘The wheat is generally dib- 
bled; and the land, upon the whole, 
thrcughout this diftri@, is well cultivat- 
ed. Cattle and fheep are much as in 
Norfolk. The buildings are generally 
made with brick, and pretty gcod; in- 
deed, I have not feen a ttore building 
(fints excepted) during the laft 150 
miles of my tour, except ina fcw places, 
wiiere they had been brought from a 
great diftance. 
[Zo be continued. | 
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To ibe Editer of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR. : 
CONE very fenfible and important hints, 
re{peéting fick clubs or provident fo- 
e:eties, hav'ng appeared in your Maga- 
zine fx July, «ritten by Mr. Woop, 
oi Sarewtbury, I_beg leave to add a hint 
wo. hop ng it may bea means of the 
fame -fenfible writer refuming his ‘pen 
~and-enlersing upon the fubjeét ; as initi- 
-tuuens of this kind appear to me very 
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important, and peculiarly ferviceable to 
the public, if properly managed. 
« That fome cf thefe focieties have been 
_under the necefiity of fhutting up their 
boxes, through their funds being inade- 
quate to the claims upon them, is but too 
true; and the improper purchafes of 
land or buildings may have, in fome in- 
ftances, occafioned it: but of fome clubs I 
have known that have been in this dilemma 
it has been owing to their not being able 
to calcuiate what allowance to their fick 
their funds would afford, . 
Where the allowance to the fick has 
been five fhillings per week, the fub- 
{cription is ufually three pence per 
week, and this would, I believe, be, in 
general, fufficient, But itis too frequent- 
ly the practice of thefe clubs, to have — 
ameeting once a fortnight, or once a 
month, and out of the fubfcription~ to 
{pend two pence or three pence a month, 
fo that twenty or twenty-five per cent. 
ot what fhould go to the ftock, is imme- 
diately {pent ; and their meetings, which 
ought to be wholly appropriated to bufi- 
neis, are rather convivial ones, and only 
nine pence or ten pence goes to the ffock, 
infiead of one fhilling for each member 
per month. xe 
I once proved to the ftewards of one 
of thefe clubs, whofe box was fhut, and 
who were going round the neighbour- 
hood to collect for the fupport of their 
“fick members, that had the full fum of 
three pence per week been paid into the- 
box, the funds of the club had been fully 
adequate to the demands, fo that their 
convivial meetings had ruined it; and it 
was fomewhat remarkable, that when 
another club, of the fame kird, was ef- 
tablifhed in the fame town, who met at a 
private houfe, and fpent nothing, this 
fame club nicknamed them, ‘‘ the water- 
porridge club.” 
Another injury many of thefe clubs 
have fuftained, has been their purchafing 
annually one or more lottery tickets; I 
have known fome that have purchafed 
three or four in a year, and have loit 
thereby 30 or 4ol. per annum. 
Another lofs thofe clubs fuftain is, the 
expence of an annual feaft: I do not 
objec to this in itfelf, provided the mem- 
bers raifed fo much extraordinary for it ; 
but if it is paid out of the box, it is 
wrong ; neverthelefs, if the fum fo ex- 
pended was added to the box, it would, 
in my opinion, he fo much better. 
But there is another grand error in the 
calculation of what thefe clubs can afford 
their fick members ; they apprenend, 
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