For remarks and additional obſervations.

never yielded any thing, is now about to be drained into the channel formed by this improved outfal, under the powers of an act of parliament paſſed this very laſt ſeſſion. With theſe facs ſtaring us in the face— with this example of im- provement before our eyes—we are now gravely told by the Lynn merchants, that the very ſame thing propoſed to be done at the outfal of the Ouſe waters at Lynn, is a wild and chimerical preject, which will infallibly ruin the port of Lynn, and the drainage, forſooth, into the bargain, of that country which is dependant on the Ouze outfal.

At this enlightened period will aſſertions be believed, which, in the caſe of Wiſbech, have proved themſelves to be fallacious? Or, can it for a moment be ſuppoſed the true reaſon of the oppofition is as they have choſe to ſtate

it? F will not offend the good ſenſe of the reader by ſup-

poſing it poffible—does any man doubt the facts as here ſtated? Enquiries are caſily made; and a view of the two

countries in the winter ſeaſon will ſnew the wonderful con-

traſt in point of ſecurity, and ſpeak to the underſtanding with arguments ſo forcible as not to be reſiſted.— Conceive, on one hand, a tract of rich country, rendered productive and ſecure, as has been before ſtated;—on the other hand,

3 conceive a flat extent of confiderably more than 300,000

acres(I ſpeaxkk now of the whole of the two levels, called the South and Middle Levels, and of Marfhland Fen, ar

of other lands contiguous to the Ouze), with wa

1d ter lying againſt it, whoſe ſurſace is five or ſix feet higher than t! ſurface of the land, and which is kept from ov

ne erflowing it by nothing but high banks, conſtructed of the looſe porous ſoil of a fen country.— Conceive a very large part of this always under water in the winter ſe

diſtricts occafionally overflowed— Can it be wondered that

aſon, and many other

inhabitants are ſcarce? What is it, that can Poſſfibly recon-

cile any one to ſuch a ſtate of uncertainty? lIt is the na-

tural fertility of the land which in one good year will re-

4 compence