Minor Notes.
_Braham Moor._--The following _remarkable_ account of this place by John
Watson, Esq., of Malton, in the year 1781, may be interesting to some of
the readers of your paper. Braham is situated five miles S.W. of
Tadcaster, and close to, and in, the remains of the old Roman road
called "Watling Street:"--
"Upon the middle of this moor a man may see ten miles around him;
within those ten miles there is as much free stone as would build
ten cities as large as York; within those ten miles there is as
much good oak timber as would build those ten cities; there is as
much limestone, and coals to burn it into lime, as the building of
those ten cities would require; there is also as much clay and
sand, and coals to burn them into bricks and tiles, as would build
those ten cities; within those ten miles there are two iron forges
sufficient to furnish iron for the building of those ten cities,
and 10,000 tons to spare; within those ten miles there is lead
sufficient for the ten cities, and 10,000 fodders to spare; within
those ten miles there is a good coal seam sufficient to furnish
those ten cities with firing for 10,000 years; within those ten
miles there are three navigable rivers, from any part of which a
man may take shipping and sail to any part of the world; within
those ten miles there are _seventy_ gentlemen's houses, all
_keeping coaches_, and the least of them an esquire, and ten parks
and forests well stocked with deer; within those ten miles are ten
market towns, one of which may be supposed to return 10,000_l._
per week."