in Dorsetshire, and the Growth of Sea-Cale. t39 



iht. weight of hemp is from 165. to 20^. per weight. The 

 rotaiion of crops as foiU)\v : 



On ground well manured Hemp. 



Wheat. 



Barlty or Oats. 



Clover with the abve. 



Wheat. 



Barley or Oats. 



Ground well manured Heuip. 



But sometimes they dress the ground well for hempevery 

 <hird year. The quantity of hemp sown in Dorset i. very 

 triflmg in comparison to what is sown in Somerset, tn the 

 former it is chiefly confined to eicht or nine parshes; 

 whert'as very large quantities are raised in Somerset,in the 

 parishes ot Misterton, Crewkerne, Hinton, St. Gorge, 

 Louen, beavingions, Flminster, Stocklinch, Donvatt King- 

 stune, Shipton, Beauchamp, Barington, South Petjerton, 

 Martlcck.N Jrron^Chiselborough.Stoke-under-hamjMont- 

 a-cute, Odcoitibe, the Chmniocks, the Cokers, the Domp- 

 tons, Bradford, and a great many other parishes Mr. 

 Emanuel Pester, ot Preston, near Yeovil, is in the middle of 

 the hemp and flax county, and he can doubtless obtain and 

 give every inlorniation that may be wished on the subject, 

 bemgso extensively engaged in agricultural pursuits hinjself, 

 and so competent lo give that sort of information wanted; 

 a bounty ot 3^^. per stone on hemp, and Ad. per stone on 

 flax, was tor many years wiven by Government, but is now 

 discontinued ; it was paid by the Clerk of the Peace for the 

 counties; and as the late Mr. Wallace managed that for the 

 county of Dorset uncommonly v ell, it is most probable that 

 a very correct return for the county of Dorset, could be ob- 

 tained from the office of the Clerk of the Peace for this 

 county, of the quantity raise3 each vear of both articles, 

 during the continuance of the bounty; also from Devon 

 and Somerset similar rt turns could be got. There are large 

 quantities of hcliip raised in Suffolk, the writer thinks, near 

 St. Edmunds Bury and Stow market, in that county. He 

 has been told they make linen so fine of hemp, as to be 

 worth bs. and 6s. \kv yard, and used for shirts m preference 

 to Irish, being considered much more durable and better, so 

 nnich so, as lo induce the Irish to imitate the fabric, and 

 stamp the cloth, .Suffolk Hf-mp. It is also raised in Nor- 

 folk, in the neighbourhoid of Lvnn and Wisbcach, but it 

 must be walerid and prejiand m some other way; indeed 

 he is convincul th.it all the hemp imported from the Baltic 

 is prepared ditferenlly trom the uiode used in Dorset and 



Somerset, 



