‘hold the poor inhabitants. 
shelves. Z 
122 Fournal of a Foyage in the Indian Seas. 
I have had an inscription-stone made of 
it for the inspection of such gentlemen 
as may see the utility of the plan. I 
likewise have made a stone ball to fix 
on the top of the house, to inform the 
traveler that he is_approaching a mile- 
house, as he will not see the inscription 
stone till nearly opposite it. Those who 
have travelled the Bath road, know what 
leasure is derivable to the traveller from 
Marie where he is. 
There are many other. advantages 
which travellers will reap from the above 
plan, which must naturally occur, and 
which it 1s consequently unnecessary to 
state here. The benefit which the pa- 
rishes will derive from the plan are also 
taanifold: the principal of them is, that 
the house will be a comfortable asylum 
to an industrious labourer, and render 
it unnecessary for the parish to provide a 
place of residence for hin and his family. 
‘It is lamentable to perceive the de- 
crease of cottages in villages: to so great 
a pitch has this evil arisen, that it 1s too™ 
notorious to require proof, that in many 
villages the workhouses are crouded, be- 
cause there are not cottages enough to 
The mile- 
houses would greatly benefit the parishes 
and the poor in this respect. ; 
It remains for me now, only to prove 
my first proposition, viz. that my plan will 
ultimately lessen the expence of keeping 
roads in repair. The expence of building 
ten of these mile-houses will be one hun- 
dred pounds, or thereabouts, each; the 
labourer will gladly pay one shilling a 
week for the rent of them, and-supposing 
‘that the trustees save only one man in 
ten miles, whese wages was ten shillngs 
per week, full five per cent. will be re- 
ceived for the money so laid out: but in 
muity situations more than two men may 
be saved in ten mules, and consequently 
@ trust will be considerable gainers by 
my plan. es 
Fe}, 10, 1807. Henry Dawes. 
45, Brewer-street, Golden-square. 
P. S. If the partiticn between the room, 
fuel, and tool-house be brick noggin, it will 
enly want plastering the inside of the room, 
which will be much better than lath and plas- 
ter on both sides. ‘The road-man’s name may 
be painted on an iron door-plate, whien, 
wwhen necessary, can be easily altered. 
The following fixtures will be required, 
shat the house may not be damaged by change 
oF tenants. 
In the Kitchen, a small dresser with two 
drawers and three’ shelves; a thirty-inch fo- 
yest-grate, with sliding cheeks. ad 
in the Pantry, a small sink, and three 
* 
Sent extant in any collection. 
[Sept. I, 
Inthe Bed-room, an eighteen-inch foreste 
grate. 
It will be necessary to furnish the labourer 
with the undermentioned tools, for which he 
must be answerable :—A wheelbarrow, spade, 
shovel, pickaxe. scraper, screen. 
It would be an additional advantage if he 
had the following also, in case of accidents: 
A hatchet, hammer, saw, and lantern,” 
| =e 
JOURNAL of @ voyAGE performed in the 
INDIAN SEAS, f0 MADRAS, BENGAL, 
CHINA, §¢c., §¢C., 7” HIS MAJESTY’S 
SHIP CAROLINE, wnthe YEARS 1808-4-5, 
Communicated to the MONTHLY MAGAZINE 
by an OFFICER of that SHIP, 
~§ it is an established custom in the 
English China ships, that the sailors. 
have three days liberty to go to Canton; 
and as, they generally form parties of 
twenty or-thirty at a time from one ship, 
many of whom contrive to be “ half seas” 
over,” during the greater part of their 
leave: it may easily be conceived, thata 
number of thé most ludicrous scenes take ! 
place between the tars and Chinese = and 
im fact a day seldom passed without our 
witnessing some of these. 
Hog-lane, the general rendezvous of 
sulors, and the Wapping of Cantor, _ 
opens at the corner of the British fac- 
tory; and here Jack gets eased of his 
dollars, and drunk into the bgeain, very 
soon after his arrival; in short, to the 
debauched lives which the sailors lead 
during these periods, and the consequent 
indirect debility induced thereby, may 
be ascribed in a great degree the sick- 
ness and mortality that prevail on board — 
the China ships at Wampoa every season, ’ 
Every China-man almost in Hog-lane — 
goes by some name that may attract the — 
notice of the sailors; as Jolly-Jack, Ben- — 
Bobstay, Tom-Bowline, &c. which he — 
inted on the outsxle of his shop; 
number of advertisements, 1m- _ 
s, in the true nautical idiem — 
hich being copied by Fukki, — 
d to the press, exhibit on — 
each side street a Chinese edition — 
of the most™h@icrous specimens of En= — 
glish hterature, that are perhaps at pre- — 
A 
It is hardly necessary to remark here, 
that the Enelish sailors are most com- — 
pletely duped and cheated by their Chi- — 
nese friends, who have in general picked © 
up a few sea terms, with which they lu 
them into their shops when pass 
through the streets. Gee ares 
Tt 1s no small amusement to listen — 
the dialogues. that sometimes take Pp 
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