England's improvement by sea and land .. . e way of another. ManyPoor Souls do their beft to prevent the fpreading a-broad of the Fire, and for want of Judgment are manytimes deitroyed. Then comes fome Lord or Perfon inAuthority or other and he cries, Fetch Powder to blowup this Houfe or that Houfe ; and no Powder at pre-fent to be had ; at laft when the Fire hath got greathead, then the Powder comes; Blow up this Houfe,faith the Gentleman, the multitude cry, no, no, Blowup that Houfe. There they are as it were at the buil-ding of Bihel, all in confufion. But pray you Writeby this copy here fc
England's improvement by sea and land .. . e way of another. ManyPoor Souls do their beft to prevent the fpreading a-broad of the Fire, and for want of Judgment are manytimes deitroyed. Then comes fome Lord or Perfon inAuthority or other and he cries, Fetch Powder to blowup this Houfe or that Houfe ; and no Powder at pre-fent to be had ; at laft when the Fire hath got greathead, then the Powder comes; Blow up this Houfe,faith the Gentleman, the multitude cry, no, no, Blowup that Houfe. There they are as it were at the buil-ding of Bihel, all in confufion. But pray you Writeby this copy here fct you, and then the Fires may beprevented, the peoples fears allayd and their mindsquieted, the great and miferable Calamities that Firesoccafion, prevented, and all people lye quiet in theirBeds except thofe imployed. And then infuch a greatCity as London is,many Fires would be over and quen-ched, before the twentieth part of the people in the City am-iighlou-mcdonpla->en-iim-)ed,ulduld Lll- nthnjllo- pieofhead ife iif- ik ng .Js, its. Ucif, fn- Ac tHar m. Part >. JB{ ^ea and iLanD* lo ^ City did know there were any Fire ar all. And certain-ly if ever fuch a thing as this take place, it is hightime now it were done. I have here annexed the Hou-fesbuiIr,Tubs upon iheSIeds,and if you would have meto do more, I cannot. Only I can tell you for Lo7ido7iand the Suburbs this Rule would do well in three pla-ces ; Vi2^. in St. M/^r^;/^ Steeple in the Fields one Sen-tinel, in St, Septich)^\c another, and in the Monu-ment another. And all things done as is here prelcribed,your fears would be quickly gone, the Houfcs wouldraife Rents,and men would purchafe Houfes that wouldnow fell thofe they have if they could. CHAP. VI. Anew Ipay of Fortification^ ufeful for the City of Tan-gier, with a Map p?ewing how the fame may withmuch eafe and [mall Charge he made Tenable againftthe greateft Tower the Emperor of Fefle aiid Mo-rocco can bring before it, MAny and fundry are the opinions
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