particular branch of the agriculture, the other of its exportation.

In the county of Norfolk are 660 parishes, and upon the average 260 acres of turnips grown in each, making 171,600 acres, the mere hoeing of which at 6s. per acre amounts to 51,480%. per ann. consequently more than one-seventh of the county is in turnips, as the total quantity of acres in the county, I have already told you, are 1,148,000.

It has been said, that the four Norfolk ports export as much corn as all the rest of England. The following extract, taken from the customhouse books at Lynn, is to be considered as the yearly average which has been exported to foreign markets and coastwise, for the years 1791, 1792, and 1793, which were far from being greatly productive. It will serve to shew you the astonishing energies of the country, when scope is given for unembarrassed exertion.

LETTER Vit.

August, 1798. Ir has been well observed, that the minds of the English, like their climate, are chequer-. ed with an extraordinary variety; which seems, indeed, to have been infused into the whole system of nature, and which is most agreeable where the scene is often changing. In most other countries, my friend, there is more of uniformity, both of clime and of character. In those, allowing for now and then a solitary Mannerist, or, if you will grant me the word—

Whimmist, there are not more distinctions of characters than of classes. The two degrees of high and low, with a sort of undefined intermediate body, form the whole nation, from the most stately order of the premier Noblesse, to the petit Baron, the distance of whose veins from the rich and ichorus blood which the

former derives from the unfathomable ocean of ancestry, is regarded but as a common puddle, dribbling through the system, impoverishing the very spirit, and unfitting him to mix a rivulet so sullied and scanty, with the crimson torrent that ennobles every artery of the first order.

Nor do the subordinate arrangements upon the Continent and more especially, you know,

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in Germany, the class of merchants, shoppeople, and les plus bas, differ essentially, from each other. A traveller, for instance, in a jourof a hundred miles, upon your land, will not only meet with duplicates and triplicates, but these again four times quadrupled, as like to each other, as tree to tree; yea, as leaf to leaf, even of the same kind of leaves. It is either the august Duke, the superb Marquis, the stately Margrave, the lofty Landgrave, the courtly Count, or the legitimate Baron: it is either these of the first class, their imitators of the second, or their imitators of the third. And so in the descending series; but all, in their line, very much alike, and on your

approach to them as little distinguishable in the interior of character, as soldiers, at a distance, in their ranks and uniform.

But a social Traveller cannot go an hundred yards on ENGLISH ground without meeting something in one person, if he meets any body, that separates him from another, either in the manner or the matter of his character; and it is fifty to one but the next person he encounters will shew himself off as differently, as if he were of a different country; even should the discourse with the first man be continued with the second.

A Dutch passage-boat, for instance, and an English stage-coach, will bring this into apt illustration. In the former, you will find a pipe in every mouth, and a long pause, broken only by the necessity of changing the barge, or by some solemn observation, for the most part, as ponderous as the vehicle in which you are drawn, and stagnant as the canal whereon you soporifically move. If the great subject, as they call it, (Trade) forces their thick and melan choly spirits through the fumes that envelop