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November 18November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years), with 43 remaining. Events:
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See Also: November 17 - November 19 - October 18 - December 18 -- listing of all days January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December Ives, to St.
Peterborough; by the drains and washes to Wisbeach, to Spalding,
which these goods are carried by land-carriage, from the places,
this observation on the town.html">town.html">town.html">town of Lynn, that they bring in more coals
wines than any port in England, except London and Bristol; their
and of late years they have extended their trade farther to the
than in Yarmouth, or even in Norwich itself--the place abounding in
strong, and in the late wars it was so; a line of fortification
rather remains of which works appear very fair to this day; nor
ravelins, and counterscarp, upon any sudden emergency, to a good.html">good
of workmen being employed, especially because they are able to fill
it cannot be drawn off.
There is in the market-place of this town a very fine statue of
Ouse is mighty large and deep, close to the very town itself, and
bridge.html">bridge, the stream being too strong and the bottom moorish and
best in the world; but there are good roads farther down.
They pass over here in boats into the fen.html">fen country, and over the
and uneasy, and where passengers often miscarry and are lost; but
without the guides, which if they would be persuaded not to do,
bridge over the Ouse; from whence we passed the fen country to
roads, innumerable drains and dykes of water, all navigable, and a
base unwholesome air; so we came back to Ely, whose cathedral,
which town, when the minster, so they call it, is. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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