constables to be bound to find a man to walk on the highway every
division for the same purpose as the cottagers do on the greater
roads.

Posts to be set up at every turning to note whither it goes, for the
direction of strangers, and how many miles distant.

(3). For the 1,000 miles of bye-lanes, only good and sufficient
care to keep them in repair as they are, and to carry the water off
by clearing and cutting the ditches, and laying materials where they
are wanted.

This is what I propose to do to them, and what, if once performed, I
suppose all people would own to be an undertaking both useful and
honourable.

2. The second question I propose to give an account of is, WHAT THE
CHARGE WILL BE, which I account thus.

The work of the great causeway I propose, shall not cost less than
ten shillings per foot (supposing materials to be bought, carriage,
and men's labour to be all hired), which for sixty-seven miles in
length is no less than the sum of 176,880 pounds; as thus:

Every mile accounted at 1,760 yards, and three feet to the yard, is
5,280 feet, which at ten shillings per foot is 2,640 pounds per
mile, and that, again, multiplied by sixty-seven, makes the sum of
176,880 pounds, into which I include the charge of water-courses,
mills to throw off water where needful, drains, &c.