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37 5,0001. The diferent appropriations of this ſurface of land may be arranged in the following way:

Acres. Towns and villages————— 23000 Publick and private roads—— 15,000 Rivers, lakes, ponds,&c.———— 2,500 Woods and plantations— 20000 Meadow and paſture land incloſed— 584,500 Marſh and fen-land unincloſed 30,000 Arable and convertible land incloſed— 260,000 Common fields—— 20,0900 Uncultivated waſtes 6 5,000

* J_000,000

The ſea-coaft is very irregular, in ſome places projeAing into lofty and rocky promontories, and in others receding into fine bays, with flat and level ſhores. From Stert point northward, the coaſt is flat, and compoſed of vaſt ſand- banks repelling the inundation of the ſea, which, in ancient times, waſhed over theſe ſhoals, and flowed up into the country, covering with its waters that extenſive territory now called Brent-MMarſh. The ſea, after its general retire- ment, paid frequent viſits to theſe parts; and it was found neceſſary, to the ſecurity of the country, to eſtabliſh a

* Since this account was taken, ſundry ads of parliament have been paſſed, and are now pending, for the incloſing, draining, and dividing of more than 18,000 acres of marſh and fen land, and 20,000 acres of common fields and uncultivated waſtes. Fifteen bills of in- cloſure have been brought into parliament this ſeſſion(1797) for this county only, whilſt, in the adjoining county of Devon, not a ſingle application has been made in this century. This is the more extra ordinary, as there are immenſe tras lying waſte in the laſt-mentioned

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