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fand, and to receive the ground in a level ſtate, within a foot of the heighth ofthe adjoining road, when the brick earth is completely manufactured. The common calcu- lation is, that there is one million of bricks per acre, in every foot depth of brick carth,(at leaſt with the addition of the aſhes that is mixed with the earth) and, one field with another, that the brick earth is 4 feet deep. The bricks called greypftocks, for the outſide of houſes, ſell at from 27. to 285. per thouſand, carriage included. Com- mon bricks, for inſide work, at a guinea. Unleſs the earth with which the ground is filled up, is of a very good quality, or unleſs great quantities of manure are laid upon it, ſome time muſt elapſe before the field recovers its for- mer fertility. There are many who object to ſuch a ma- nufacture being ſaffered in the neighbourhood of the me- tropolis, confidering it offenſive and unwholeſome. On the other hand, it is contended that fire is a great purifier of the atmoſphere, and that, in cloſe and hot weather, a number of brick kilns, all round London, is of real uſe to the health of the inhabitants.

Common fields.— Thoughrit is a circumſtance hardly to be credited ſo near the metropolis, yet certain it is, that there are ſtill many common fields in the county of Middleſex. It is unneceſſary to enter into every particular inſtance, it may be fufficient to give a fingle caſe or two, which will prove the abſurdity of that ſyſtem. In the pariſh of Ful- ham there is a tract of above 400 acres of moſt excellent land in that ſtate. Only horſes, however, are admitted on it, and being what is called Lammas Land, it is com- mon only from Lammas to Michaelmas, during which period, at the ſame time, a great deal of miſchief is done by poaching the ground,&œ. The rent of theſe fields, in confequence of their ſituation and natural fertility, is now about(3 per acre, hut would be increaſed at once from

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