# Manx Primary Source Archive — Transcription

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**Transcribed:** 2026-02-25 19:26  
**Method:** Automated (Claude Batch API — claude-opus-4-6)

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If Roads are made thro the Country, Inns
&posts ought to be established to protect Farmers from
the Violence of the Natives. The Suppression &Discovery
of Smuggling renders it an object to Government
to have the Country opened &these posts or barracks
in different parts occupied by ten or a dozen
Soldiers each, who would make the Roads of
Protect Farmers – And the Survey of the Island
mentioned in a proper apart ought for the same
reason to be made at Govern^t Expence

The £300 levied for making Roads
would be improved upon which to borrow £3000
which would do a great deal to make all the
necessary Roads. If the Surplus after paying
the Interest of that ought to be put under
the management of Trustees of Character
& property whose own interest would lead them
to be vigilant & zealous in the proper application
of the fund for maintaining the Roads.

Coals could then be imported at a low
rate from Whitehaven, there is limestone in
every corner. If the roads would give access to
this species of manure which in lands that have
been in a state of nature so long would produce