colour. The panel of the pedestal contains, in bronze letters, an inscription most honourable to the deceased prelate.

Ipswich will be much convenienced by a new castiron bridge, of a single elliptic arch, sixty feet in the span, rising ten feet, with a roadway of twenty-two feet and a half, instead of the old bridge, communicating with Stoke.

At Eye resolutions have been taken for forming a canal between the port of Ipswich and the hundreds of Hartesmere, Hoxne, and Diss-thus rendering less expensive the conveyance of corn, coals, and other merchandize.

It has been observed, as to those solid advantages which must be the result of good water carriage, that northerly, the Grand Junction Canal is now so complete as to extend quite across the country to Liverpool, and that a parallel one to join the Cam and the Stort together has been some time in contemplation, by which a direct aquatic communication between Lynn and London, through or near Cambridge, will be opened, and consequently carried completely to London, whenever the navigation to join the Stort shall be finished. Hence it has been suggested, that a short cut from the Soham Lode to the Lark river, which runs to Bury St. Edmunds, would be attended with less expense, and more certainty of success, by pouring into its lap the terrestrial treasures of this fertile region. In the north-eastern counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, where the greatest deficiency of water-carriage has existed, in case of a new navigation, its continuance to Thetford is substantially recommended; because the line of communication will not only be as straight as an arrow, but will compre

hend Bury St. Edmunds. This place being situated so near the termination of the Stow Market and Ipswich navigation, the canal passing through, would thus fill up an hiatus, and the whole of that course of country might enjoy the benefit of aquatic conveyance. This improvement is now recommended, because the opulence, ingenuity, and activity of this county, have been such as to leave very little room for further exertion in any other element.

Whilst these points of utility have been considered, the antiquary will find that the state of past ages has not been overlooked; but without entering into the dryness generally attending long discussions upon former times, all that is important in ancient architecture, or generally interesting as descriptive of manners or morals, is retained as far as consistent with the limits of these Excursions.

London, May 1, 1819.

THE EDITOR.

DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER

FOR PLACING THE PLATES.

SUFFOLK, VOL. I.

Remains of the bishop's palace, Remains of Gedding hall, 174.