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suggested for defending the eastern coast of NorFo_k.

This simple and easy plan of defence, is to be excuted, in the summer season,— when the sands are light, and the tides are low,—by two lines of slight fencing, placed some yards from each other, to catch the blowing sands; and, on these, to propa- gate the Magram plant ,—here provincially “BENT; namely, arundo arenaria, or sea- sand reed. See NorFoLx, Min: 106.

Not only the mischiefs, to which the in- closed lands now are liable, by the drifting of the sand, as well as by the occasional inroads of salt water(which spoils or injures the herbage, on which it lodges, for some years) might probably be avoided; but many hundred acres of unreclaimed coast (or rather a bay within the line of coast) over which the high tides now regularly flow, might possibly be rescued from the waves, at a comparatively small expence.

The other is the GRAVELLY FLAT, already mentioned, which forms the eastern point of the level, near.HiTHE; and which con- sists, perhaps, of more than a thousand acres of surface.

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