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YARRANTON'S England's Improvement by Sea and Land. Part I. London, 1677. There seems a foundation of truth in the old English distich The North for Greatness, the East for Health, The South for Neatness, the West for Wealth. State Paper Office. Dom. Charles II. 1660-1.

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