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Dawkes.—Aged 63, Mr. John Wilkinfon, 
late a refpectable grocer of Wifbech, 
At Ely, Mrs. Bentham, aged gr. 
NORFOLK. 
A report has lately been drawn up on the 
great advantages that may be derived in many 
parts of England, by the improvement of what . 
are generally ftyled dry harbours; and from 
the inclofure of falt marfhes, by embankment 
from the fea, where it is found to recede from 
the fhore ; with particular reference to the 
harbour of Wells, in this county, defcribing 
its prefent ftate, and the means of improving 
it, to the reciprocal advantage of the mer- 
chants and inhabitants of the town, and to 
the owners of the adjoiaing fale marfhes.— 
The following are the ovtlines of the plan 
which is recommended to be carried into exe- 
cution:—I1t is firft propofed, that all the wafte 
water from Holkham Lake, and all the Jand- 
fprings that can be collected from the up-lands 
weft of the town of Wells, fhall be colleéted 
together, and difcharged througha fluice into 
the top cf Wells harbour, inftead of falling 
into the channel, as it now does, confiderably 
lower. It is next propofed, (with the per- 
miffion of the marquis Townfhend,) that 
all the water of the St:ffkey river, which 
difcharges itfelf through the weftern fluiceat 
Morfton, fhall be diverted from that fluice, 
and brought to the topof Wells harbour, and 
there difcharged into the main channel; and 
that the water from the faid river, which 
paffes through the eaftern fluice at Morfton, 
fhall be diverted into the Eager creek, and 
Sifcharged into the top of Blakeney harbour. 
“st is further prapofed, that all the ends of the 
main creeks, next the fea, fhall be ftopped 
wp, and that twoor more fluices at Wells, 
mear where the bathing-houfe now ftands, 
fhall be erected, to admit the full flow of the 
tides into ali the principal creeks, within one 
foot of their furface ; which fluices fhall be 
fo contrived, as to pen up. the water fo re- 
ceived into them, till the tideebbs back to 
nearly low water mark, and then to open and 
difcharge their contents, in a ftrong body, 
with fuch weight and velocity as to remove 
all obftructions, by which means the harbour 
will receive a conftant and effectual fcour, and 
chere is no manner of doubt but its efteé& wilk 
be fuch, as to render the greateft benefit to it; 
for it muft be allowed, that a bucket of water, 
4hrown by this means into the tep of it, will 
‘do more than a hogfhead further down; be- 
fides which, the tide will be free to fiow up 
as far as Moriton fluice, and mix with the 
frefh waters that will be brought from thence, 
which will be very confider. ble at all times, 
and in the winter feafon and times of flood, 
the body of water which this channel will 
yring down from the country, will be incal- 
‘glably beneficial ; but in cafe the living wa- 
gters Cannot be aes there may be a con- 
gcrivance fuggefted to anfwer a fecondary pure 
poofe, by letting the waters flow into the 
reat creeks, as it now does, and when the 
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‘creeks are nearly full, to divert it to an out- 
fall farther up the harbour, which may un- 
doubtedly be done to a good effeét, and will 
very much improve the harbour, though the 
more obvious and more effectual remedy ‘would: 
refult from the ufe of the living waters. It 
is likewife propofed, for the benefit of Blake- 
ney harbcur, to ereét another fluice on the 
top of it, fufficiently large to admit, every 
tide, water enough to fill the Eager, and all 
other large adjoining creeks; and to difcharge 
the fame back again, on the top of the har- 
bour, together with the frefh water mixed 
with it, which will be brought from Morfton 
fluice, and which muft have a powerful effect 
in icouring and cleaning the parts below. The 
banks propofed againft the fea, where there 
are no meals, are to be 64 feet feat, 5 feet 
wide on the cop, and 12 feet high 3; and form- 
ed on a regular flope towards the fea, with a 
bd 
fmall curve near the top, to throw back the | 
{pray of the fea. 
againtt the firm high land, as near as the levels 
will admit of it, will be fare feet wide on the 
top, ten feet wide at the bettom, and eight 
feet deep, and the earth will be all thrown 
on the fide next the marfhes, to form a bank 
fufficient to keep off the tides, when they 
flow up into the channel, and mix with the 
freth water. The expence of thefe projected 
improvements is eftimated at 30,co0l, 
Married.| At Norwich, Mr. Crifp Brown, 
corn-merchant, to Mifs Chafe, eldeft daugh- 
ter of Mr. James Chafe.—Mr. Edward Blom- 
field, to Mrs. Elizabeth Betts: their united 
ages amount to 145 years—-Mr. George 
Hallows, to Mrs, Cupper.—Mr. Diggins, of 
Dereham, to Mifs Ann Smith, of Swaffham. 
At Yarmouth, Mr. William Beals, fithing- 
merchant, to Mrs. Lot, widow of Capt, Lot, 
who was in the Oporto trade.—Mr. Daniel 
Bacon, farmer, of Stradfett, to Mifs Mary 
Royle, daughter of the Rev. William Royle, 
of Crimplefham.—-Mr- Wm __Jackfon, printer, 
of Bungay, to Mifs- Mary Ann Hunt, eldef# 
daughter of Mr. Hunt, of Woodton.—Mr, 
John Howlett, to Mifs Maria Oughton, both 
of Fakenham.—The Rev. Chritepher Wordie 
worth, rector of Afhby, Oby, and Thume, 
to Mifs Lloyd, of Birmingham. 
Died.| Aged 71, Mrs. Smith, mother of 
Mrs, Phillips, of Fakenham.—Aged 45, Mr. 
Thomas Heading, of Crimplefham.—Mr. S. 
Hart, farmer, at Uhorpe Market, aged 68. 
At Gimmingham, Mrs. Gooch, reliét of 
William Gocch, efq- 
At Norwich, aged 66, Mrs. Maltby, reliét 
of the late George Maltby, efq-—Aged 73, 
Peter Hooke, M.D. many years one of the 
phyficians of the Norfolk and Norwich hof- 
pital.—-Mrs. Hickling, aged 67.--Mrs. Flem- 
ing.—Aged 16, Nathaniel Walker, fon of the 
Rev. John Walker.—Mr. Barnard Bowles, in 
the 56th year of his age. 
At the Parfonage-~houfe, Eaft Walton, Mrs, 
Elizabeth Lemon, relict of the Rev. George 
Willian 
The canal or channel, to. 
bring the water from Morfton fluice, to be cut: 
