Westmoreland and Cumberland. 181 
which he sees. The value of his remarks 
will, however, be very differently estimated ; 
such as are fond of rural life, may et 
excuse the spent alan aniint eis 
From Bolton to Blackburn we noticed the 
frequent failure of attempts to grow corn and 
potatoes in situations and upon soils very 
unfit forthem. Little attention seemed to be 
paid to the seed potatoes, as it was not un- 
common to observe three. or four varieties of 
blossom in one row: and in some corn fields 
the weeds were almost equal in bulk to the 
straw. There are few good houses to be seen 
from the road, and the cottages appeared 
filthy and uncomfortable. The farmsare small, 
the fences bad, and the timber oath yi sickly 
and ill grown. 
We saw only one specimen of drill ha 
bandry, which was ina field of turnips, and 
not very promising. The clover was very 
poor, but the meadows and pastures looked 
much better than the plowed land, and are 
improvable at half the expence of growing 
corn. Draining seemed well attended to, 
materials being found in almost every farm, 
but weeding was much neglected in a great 
proportion of the arable lands and paren 
near the road. 
