A little vale runs through a great part of this moor, from south-east to north-west; and the ground was, until lately, altogether uneven.

On the town side of the little dividing vale the land is a light, sandy soil; on the other side, there is abundance of clay for brickmaking.

Upon this moor there are now fifteen hundred men, chiefly factory operatives, at work, levelling the land for building purposes, and making a great main sewer for the drainage of future streets.

The men, being almost all unused to this kind of labour, are paid only one shilling per day; and the whole scheme has been devised for the employment of those who are suffering from the present depression of trade.

The work had been going on several months before I saw it, and a great part of the land was levelled.