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Colour ; tbeyär« usoally Mtv>ed\ they are Scarce and Dear, Ufually be-fpoke by Perscns ot Qjality. Here are also, almost through the wholeLevel , Swans in their Dreins, which they oben Feed ior Prescnts withiOars, each requiring Two Strike, i. e. 1 6 Gallons, here reputed butaBustsel,

For Fi(h, here are Turbets in good plenty (here call’d Brett') taken inLiess Trail’d on the Ground by two Horses; one goeth Mid-rib Deep intoSea, the other near the Shore. Here are also good plenty of Large Soals,taken in Troul-Nets, the Smncks being under Sail Trailing them along;as also good Stove of Scate , which are taken by Hooks lying near theShores; as are also Cod and Thernback.

Amongst JnfeBs, Gnats, here Midges, are in some places very Troubls-fomc; some have Nets tnade of Silk, to secure them from being Bitten.Frogs here are in great Plenty, call’d Holland Waitts.

As lor Vegetables, great QuantitiCs of Hemp are Sown in scveral places,of which Ropes are made, both for Sea and Land ; the Eemale is call’dFemble, as also Flax : The Seed is broken, and Oyl made thereof, as ofCoal-Seed. Our Salt Marines yield a great deal of Kali Geniculatum, whichwhen Pickled is their Samphtre, and very plentifully used, and far esteem’dby them before Crichmum Mannum. Carum grows plentifully in our Pa-stures \ the 6Wthey ca 11 Saxifrage, which they gather and send to London.Myrtus Brabantica , call*d Gall, is used in some places to Garnifh their-Chimneys. Kirton Ptppins are here good, and in very good plenty. MoreRare Plants are Rhamnus Salicis Fol. Frutlu Flavescente C. B. Limonium.Scordium, Peiaßtes , Lihum conval. Eryngium, stlthaa, in great plenty ;Sambucus vulg. Baccis in Umbellis Albis , Militaris Az,oides.

These Parts affordbut little variety of Metals, Gums, or Stores. Amberis .pickt up some times on the Sands in pretty big piece?; 1 have had oneweighingnear 6 Ountes. The Astnites , found at Belvoir Caftlc, will notonly ßir in Finegar, but also Dukifie it: the like will thosc do, as alsoLapis Judatcus soll found in England, by my Kinsman, Mr. Robert Jenner,Rector of Lyddiard Millifcent Wilts, in a Park belonging to Sir Walter St.John, near unto him.

Here Coals are Charred and then call’d Coak, wherewith they Dry Malt,giving little Co/c«r oc Taste to the Drink made therewith. On the Sandsthe poor People sweep togethera Black Small Substance (1 soppose ’ris Coalsbroken ) wherewith they make Fi r es, bv leaving open a Hole in their Chim-neys, for the Air to Blow it; they have One on both fide to open and thutas the Wind Sirs.

What I have further toobferve is, That Agues (here call’d Holland Bay-lies) are very Rise ; iew Strangers eseaping wirhout a Seafonmg. As also,That at Spalding there is lately a va>t Tunnel, laid under the River Wei-land, carrying another under it, for Dreining the Ftns And, That be-tween Dunnmgton and Bfigg-End, which is about z Mtles, a good Gaus-•May is carry’d through the Fen, having in scveral places Bridge« for theWater to run under them; whence the Name of Brigg-End Caufvay :

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