FE. N D I X.

Obſervations on the Advantages to be derived from an improved OuTFaL at the Port of LrNN; with Anfwers to the Objections which it is fuppoſed will be urged againſt that Meaſure.

THE queſtions to be conſidered by the parties, intereſted in that important meaſure, are as follow:

1. Whether an improved outfal is not a grand defideratum, without which fubordinat works have alreagy hiie themfelves to be of no avall wlalever⸗

3. Wh ether the ex nce of chat improv ed outfal, an of ſuch other ſul botcnar te works, as will be required to convey the waters into it, from the various diſtricis comprizing the 300,000 F acres, is lkely to be ſuch as wi ill juſtfy the undertaking?

The firſt queſtion is anfwered by the preſent dep'orable ſtate of the fens.— The ſecond by that example which has taken place below W iſbech. The third requires an anſwer more at large, which I will endeavour to gire. The tax meant to be c harged upon nhe lands, for the

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expence of the mere outfal, was 44 7l. per acre for 10 years, ar ad no lo: ager, upon all the lands draining through the river Ouze. Reſpecting fubordinate work, I Behne ex Fe ei, hat the country draining into the Wiſbech outfal, is divided into five diſtricts, cach of which Was

already i in poſfeſſion of inlernal Works for conveying its own particular downfal waters, into the main cuts, but neither the internal drains, nor the main cuts, were, before this improved outfal, of any avail towards drainage.

Over and above the tax that was laid for the paymen t 5 the e Ebencc a atte ndant on the out- fal(which, by the bye, was far greater than that propoſed at Lynn, the tract of country being much lets), each of thoſe diddohs charged itſelf with ſuch taxes as were edre to pay the expences of improving thoſe internal works, a aecoiclug as the circumſtances of its own caſe made it neceflary. Now an improvement having been effected, the expence has of courſe

been