OF KENT,

5 dudive; and the principal part of the remainder, altho” naturally a poor thin light mould on a chalky bottom, 1s made exceedingly fertile by the excellence of the ſyſtem under which it is cultivated. By an exa account taken of Minſter, in Thanet, January 1, 1774, there were found to be in that pariſh 149 houſes, 696 inhabitants, Viz. 359 males, and 337 females: of theſe, in ſixteen farm- houſes, inhabited by tradeſmen, labourers, and widows, there were 249 males, and 280 females. The average number of inhabitants, male and female, to éach farm- houſe 1s 10,43753 to each of the other houſes SOTA and to the whole number of houſes 4,6067711. And by another account taken in 1773, of St. Lawrence, includ- ing Ramſgate which contains more than two-thirds of the houſes and inhabitants of the whole pariſh, there were found in that pariſh 699 houſes and 2726 inhabit- ants, And again in 1792, there were found 825 houſes, and bor inhabitants: which is an increaſe of 126 houſes, and of 875 inhabitants in that pariſh in nineteen Years, The population in the latter period 4, 3b9 per houſe,

That part of the county uſually called Eaſt Kent, is of two kinds; one very opcn and dry, the other much in- cloſed with woods and coppices. The open part lies be= tween the city of Canterbury and the towns of Dover and Deals; and the incloſed part of thé tra extends from Dover, by Elcham and Aíhford, to Rochéfſter in length, and from the Iſle of Shepey to Lenham,&c. 1ñ breadth, The chief of the woodlands of Eaſt Kent arc diſperſed between the great road from Rocheſter to Dover, and the chalk-hill that runs from Folkſtone by Charing to Det- ling.

Theſe woods furniſh the country with fire-wood, til- lers for huſbandry uſes, and the dock-yards with timber for ſhip-building; but the moſt material part of their

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