heath and increafe pafture; paring and burn-* 

 ing fome parts ; fpreading the afhes, and fow- 

 ing grafs without a crop, to increafe the paf- 

 ture ; erecting fome houfes with large gar- 

 dens, in the warm dry fituations. Where the 

 foil is good, about two and a half acres to e- 

 very houfe, to be laboured only with the 

 ipade. A number of thefe houfes might be 

 built in the glens or vallies, where there is 

 good flicker. 



There is certainly a great number of mines 

 in thefe hills, either of lead or copper. The 

 great matter is how to find them out. View-* 

 ing the water tracks after thunder fliowers, 

 or very heavy rains, may fometimes be the 

 means to find them out. Cutting water- 

 tracks acrofs the face of the hills may fome- 

 times make difcoveries. Wherever there is 

 ipar, which is a hard variegated fubftance, 

 there are mines not far off. This may fome- 

 times lead perfons to trace where the vein of 

 ore is. But the mines are mofl frequently 

 found out by accident. It is faid, when there 

 is much fnow upon the ground, wherever 

 the mines are the fnow melts firft. 



Although thefe hills are very difmal and 



barren 



