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[ In publishing these papers and famishing out a monthly miscellany for our readers , we shall be constrained to disregard chronological order . As they are not otherwise connected than as Mr . Say is the principal personage in most of them * this will be no
great disadvantage . The letters are printed verbatim tt literatim from the autographs or attested copies ; omissions are signified by asterisks ; injuries done to the papers by time and accident are stated . Editor . ]
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No . IV . Letter from Mr . Say t # Mr . iV Carter of OTarmoutb . —— V . Letter from Dr . Jo " hn Eva * s to Mr . Say * — VI . Letter from Dr . Daddridge to Mr . Say . — VII . Letter from Rev * R . Urquhari to Mr . Say . — VIII . Extempore hy Dr . Earte . ——• IX . Succession of Ministers at Yarmouth .
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No . IV . Mr . Say to Mr . N . Carter V . Yarmouth . Bednal Green * Ap . 7 > % > X . 70 Q .. Sir , We sett out 011 tmr Journey on the day we had pwrpos'd , and coming the following noon to Port 6 m ° , we viewed the Orandeur of the Royal Ships , the Docks , the Stores and Fortifications of that
important place ; and after a short visit by the way to my friends at Southampton , we past on to Sarum : and , contenting ourselves with a slight run thro * the City , we took a stricter survey of its
Cathedral , the neatest and most regular Structure of that kind in our nation . We venttir'd to climb near the utmost height of its Spire , which is more than twice so high as * he Monument . Near to this City is the noble seat of the be-
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loved E . of Pembroke ; famous fof the beauty of the Building , the fineness of the Paintings , and the Curiosity of the Water-works . —From hence , fetching * little Compass , we left the direct road to Frome , to observe the Stonehenge ^ that odd and unaccountable work o £ Men , or Goblins , as Superstition
believes ; which appears to be the rude Monument of some signal Victory gained on that place , by the vast number o £ little Hills thrown up all over the Plains for two miles together , where the dead bodys were probably buried . At Frome we saw the manner of drawing Iron Wire to the utmost fineness for ' the
making of Cards ; a secret till of late unknown in our Nation , and now almost peculiar to this Town : Saw dis Women and the very least of Children gainfully imploy'd in making the Cards
themselves : Saw the use of those Cards , for dressing and mixing the Wool , the Wool wrought into Cloath * the Cload * sheefM of its coarser nap , ajid the Hottpfe « ses , to give it a graceful Gloss and fitt it for the Merchant .
From hence , over craggy rocks and deep Sloughs we ascended Mendip , whose Bowels are rich w ** veins of Lead . —We were let down thro a narrow bore or well , by a rope that clasp * round our Thighs , 15 fathom uader ground , among JElocks and ia darkness , to view by the weak light of a Candte which each held in his hand , the manner
how the ore ran between the Quarrys of stone ; bow they follow ed those Qaarrys ; blew the Rocks asunder by Gunpowder , and digg * d out the embryo of that useful metal . This prepared us to enter w more courage . the formidable mouth of Och y Hole , a wondrous Cavera of 310 yards leqgth , formed by ther course of "time , and a River underground which rises at once out of the earth ia
the innermost recess . We viewM-without much horror the extravagant Shapes and various figures in the Kicchiri , the Hall and the CeUar ( so they call the several partitions of that prodigious Cave , )
to w the old woman that led us in
* Mr . N . Carter appears to have been a gentleman of great respectability . He * was born July \ o , 16 35 . He married , Feb . xt , 1677 , Mary the daughter of Charles Fleet wood , and grand-daughter of Oliver Cromwell , who died in Octdker 1697 . He died without is * ue xy %% . He was uncle to Miss Sarah Hamby , whot » Mr . Say married . Eo .
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THE SAY PAPERS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 63, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/7/
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