To this charge must be added, ditching to inclose land for thirty
cottages, and building thirty cottages at 40 pounds each, which is
1,200 pounds.

The work of the smaller causeway I propose to finish at the rate of
a shilling per foot, which being for 149 miles in length, at 5,280
feet per mile, amounts to 36,960 pounds.

Ditching, draining, and repairing 1,000 miles, Supposed at three
shillings per rod, as for 320,000 rods, is 48,000 pounds, which,
added to the two former accounts, is thus:

Pounds
The high post-roads, or the great causeway 178,080
The small causeway 36,960
Bye-lanes, &c. 48,000
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263,040

If I were to propose some measures for the easing this charge, I
could perhaps lay a scheme down how it may be performed for less
than one-half of this charge.

As first, by a grant of the court at the Old Bailey whereby all such
criminals as are condemned to die for smaller crimes may, instead of
transportation, be ordered a year's work on the highways; others,
instead of whippings, a proportioned time, and the like; which
would, by a moderate computation, provide us generally a supply of
200 workmen, and coming in as fast as they go off; and let the
overseers alone to make them work.