354 THE BEE, OR Match 2 



long bodied but broad backed and fhort legged, introduced 

 by Bakewell They are both all white, body, face, and 

 legs: Both of them have much finer wool, and r. larger 



TTVa''' '^^V^' ^"^'"^ "^^^P- Bakewell's kind have 

 the fineft Hiort wool. From an experiment lately tried a 

 crois between the two breeds feems to anfwer well, viz the 

 ram_of the Culley, the ewe of the Bakewell breed. In this 

 cultivated diftncl and mild climate, the Englifli are pre- 

 ferred to the Scotch (heep, on account of the greater quan- 

 tity and finer quality of the wool ; their being lefs hurtful 

 to the hedges ; and their greater weight when fold to the 

 mitcher. The whole number of (heep in the parifh, amounts 

 at preient only to about 1 000. 



• The produce of the ditlrifl is, on the whole, much great- 

 er than fufhcient for the confumption of the inhabitants. 

 About t\vo thirds of the whole is carried to markets out of 

 the parifh, yiz. a confiderable quantity of butter, milk, veal 

 mutton, beef, wheat, oat-meal, and b'arley, to Dumfries • a 

 large quantity of wheat and barley to' Whitehaven and 

 -Liverpool J of oats to Greenock ^ and a great number of 

 young black cattle and flieep to the towns in the neighbour- 

 There are hares, and fome foves, and all the fowls which 

 are natives of the fouth parts of Scotland. The migratory 

 birds are, the fwallow and the cuckow. During the whole 

 year, the fea gulls, commonly called, in this pariih, f.a- 

 ma-m, occafionally come from the Solway Frith to this part 

 ot the country ; their arri^-al feldom fails of being followed 

 by a high wind, and heavy rain, from the fouth-weft, with- 

 in twenty.four hours ; and they return to the Frith again as 

 loon as the Itorm begins to abate. 



th/^ft^'f /fu^'''^^r— '^^" ''"'^' ""''' originally made bv 

 the ftatute labour ; but in that way they were neither half 

 inade nor half kept in repair. Several years ago, an aft 

 of parliament vyas obtained for this county, converting the 

 ftatute labour into money, to be paid by the occupiers of 

 land, at a rate not exceeding 12 s. in the 100 merks of 

 S. otch valuation, and a certain fum to be paid by the pof- 

 leiTors of houfes m towns and villages. In fome diftrlfts of 

 the county, where making the roads is escpenfive, the occu- 



