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and the foil varies fo much, that each county (houl4 

 have a fociety for promoting agriculture, and other 

 improvements for their local advantages, in which 

 the general good will neceffarily be involved. In 

 Breconfliire there has been one above 30 years i we 

 followed them, and I have long been furprifed that 

 there fnould be a county in the ifland without a fund 

 raifed by the voluntary fubfcriptions of the affluent, 

 to promote fuch objefts of public utility as the 

 majority of the fubfcribers approve; but there is a 

 want of public fpirit, fo that improvements go on 

 very flowly, though I think much fafter in this than 

 any former age. 



The vale of this county, bordering on th(* 

 Briftol channel, far exceeds any other vale in Wales 

 in extent and fertility. We have a very good 

 breed of horfes, cattle, and fheep, and are improv- 

 ing; but in the north-fide of the county, there are 

 thoufands of acres of heathy hills, where all animals 

 arc nearly in a Hate of nature. - The people live in 

 very narrow valleys, and are moftly employed in 

 herding their fmall horfes, cattle, and fheep, on the 

 hills i to the breed of which they give no attention, 

 as they pay very litde for their pafture. Their 

 great difficulty is to preferve them in winter; they 

 houfe the catde, but the fheep are often buried in 

 k fnow 



