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England's improvement by sea and land .. . ^/ A * rv r». (^ LJ) O C Part 1. 56^ ^ea anD XanD* > 99 and in the time of War, the Kings Ships which drawnot above Twenty Foot Water, may there he well fe-cured, and upon all occafions be quick out at Sea, andtherefmall Ships of War may be built and repaired;many Shipwracks prevented,and certainly it will inviteall perfons failing that way, to fet a great value uponthat Harbour, as now they do on Tltmouth and Fal-mouth. Secondly, I conceive one great reafon, why this iobeneficial a work was not perfecSted, was the want ofan hdi of Parliament to fu
England's improvement by sea and land .. . ^/ A * rv r». (^ LJ) O C Part 1. 56^ ^ea anD XanD* > 99 and in the time of War, the Kings Ships which drawnot above Twenty Foot Water, may there he well fe-cured, and upon all occafions be quick out at Sea, andtherefmall Ships of War may be built and repaired;many Shipwracks prevented,and certainly it will inviteall perfons failing that way, to fet a great value uponthat Harbour, as now they do on Tltmouth and Fal-mouth. Secondly, I conceive one great reafon, why this iobeneficial a work was not perfecSted, was the want ofan hdi of Parliament to fupport the doing thereof, asalfo it is pofTibie the Engineer firft imployed, was notfo knowing, as was requifite info great an underta-king,for as the thing now flands, there was one Peermade, which is on the North, but had the WefternPeer been firft Finiihed, then the quantities of Sandsnow lodged in the mouth of the Harbour, had beencarried away to Sea, and the frefhes of water defcen-dingoui of the have kept open the mouthof the Harbour.
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