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7,d, Another fourth part, which joins this laft, is a deep 

 ftrong loam, interfperfed with ftones, upon a tilly bed •, it is 

 naturally wet, ftiff to plough, and not fo fertile as either of 

 the two former •, but, when drained, limed, and properly 

 wrought, more productive both of com and grafs than either 

 of them, in all varities of ieafons, excepting only a cold and 

 wet fummer. 4//', The remaining part, which is hilly, is 

 fomewhat limilar to to the lall:, only not fo deep and wet ; it 

 produces a kind of grafs, neither very fine nor very coarfe, 

 which, in fom.e of the higlier parts of the hills, is mixed 

 with heath, and a few other hard weeds. 



j^ir, Climate h'c. — The air is dry, and remarkably whole- 

 fome. Tlie lingular healthinefs of the inhabitants may, how- 

 ever, be attributted to the following caufes. They do not 

 live in towns, or even villages ; they are not employed in 

 fedentary occupations J being eitlier country gentlemen or 

 farmers ; they live in houfes detached from each other ; they 

 are engaged in ■ active employments in the open air; they 

 are induilrious, fober, and cheerful. The drynefs of the 

 air, is owing to the peculiar local fituation of the parilh- 

 The clouds, intercepted by the hills on every fide, float in 

 fogs on the top of them, while the inhabitants enjoy a clear 

 and dry air in the valley. At other times, when the clouds 

 break into rain on the hills, or the fides of the valley, while 

 the fliirts of the 'fliowers only reach its central parts. Add 

 to ihefe circumftances, that the two rapid rivers carry ofi^ 

 the fupci-fluous water from the land, and the moifture from 

 the air. 



Seed time,- and Har-arJ} — The time of fowing wheat is from 

 the middle of September to tlie middle of October ; oats, 

 pcafe hearts, hemp, and llax, from the loth of March to the 

 raiddie of April ; i)otatoes and barley from the middle of 

 April to the loth of Afay j and turnips, from the loth to the 

 24th of June. The harvcft generally begins about or be- 

 fore the middle of Augull ; and the crop is got totally into 

 the barns, and barn-yards, by the end of September. In 

 cold and wet feafons, like the lail, it is however fomewhat 

 later. 



lipid emical Difeafes No local diftempers, or ficknefs of 



finy kind, are prevalent in the parifli. In the months of 

 February and March, indeed, feme fevers appear among the 



