Excerpt from A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, With a Return Down the Rhine: To Which Are Added, Observations During a Tour to the Lakes of Lancashire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland
Eople, who, for opportunities of commerce, have increafed their original and natural dangers by admitting the water in fome parts, while, for their homes and their lives, they mull pre vent it. From encroaching upon others. Dam, Sluice, or kc, occur in almoft all their com pounded tit es. The fluice, which ives this town part of its, name, is alfo its har our; af fording, perhaps, an outlet to the overflowings of the country behind, but filled at the entrance.
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