. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. full liberty to make such alterations as may appear to me or my successors to be proper in the planof the village. These regulations are the best security against having vagabonds in such a place, as nonebut industrious people can afford to build or rent such houses. 5852. A new village sea-port in Devonshire was formed by Sir Lawrence Palk, in the
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. full liberty to make such alterations as may appear to me or my successors to be proper in the planof the village. These regulations are the best security against having vagabonds in such a place, as nonebut industrious people can afford to build or rent such houses. 5852. A new village sea-port in Devonshire was formed by Sir Lawrence Palk, in the northernmost partof Torbay. A new pier, projected south-westwardly from the eastern cliff, affords complete protection toshipping from the south-east winds. The regularity of the buildings lately raised for the accommodationof company resorting hither for the convenience of sea-bathing, adds neatness and beauty to the wild andpicturesque scenery of its natural situation ; and, from the size of the vessels the harbour is now capableof protecting whilst they receive and discharge their cargoes, there are well-grounded expectations thatthis place will become of some maritime consequence on a future day. A plan of this sea-port (fig. 578.) 578. is given in the Devon Survey, and is described as containing a pier (I), quay (2), harbour (3), ware-houses (4), inn atd garden (5), stables (6), strand (7), cove for building ships and timber yard (8\ beacon(9), cove for batliing aachines (10), new carriage-way to the park (ll), terrace (12), the park (13), plant-ation (14), road toTcsrvood (15), road from Newton, &c. (16), meadows (17), circus in the park (18). Chap. VII. Of Mines, Quarries, Pits, and Metalliferous Bodies. 3853. Against mines, as a species of property, considerable prejudice has long existed, from the variation of their produce, and the uncertainty of their extent and duration. Modern discoveries in geology, however, have thrown great light on the subject of mining, und i
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