Jttft fullijhtd, written ty tat Author of the foregoing Work, 



In Four Volumes, Oftavo, 

 Price 1 1. fewed, or 1 1. 45. bound. 



Illuftrated with twenty-fix Copper- plates of fuch new-invented 

 Implements of Hufbandry, as deferve to be generally 

 known, and Views of fome Pilurefque Romantic Scenes, 

 which occurred to the Author in the Courfeof his Journey; 



A S I X M O N'T H S TOUR 



THROUGHOUT THE 



NORTH OF ENGLAND 



CONTAINING 



An Account of the prefent State of AGRICULTURE, MANU- 

 FACTURES and POPULATION in feveral Counties of this 

 Kingdom. 



PARTICULARLY, 



I. The Nature, Value, and Rental , which might and ought to be 

 of the Soil. cultivated. 



i VI. 



II. The Size of Farms, with 

 Accounts of their Stock, Pro- 

 dufts, Population, and various 

 Methods of Culture. 



III. The Ufe, Expence, and Profit 

 of feveral Sorts of Manure. 



IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the 

 refpeclive Profits attending them . 



V. The State of the Walte Lands 



The Condition and Number of 

 the Poor, with 'their Rates, 

 Darnings, &c. 



VII. The Prices of Labour, Provi- 

 fions, and the Proportion between 

 them. 



VIII. The Regifter of many curiout 

 and ufeful Experiments in Ajri- 

 culture. 



INTERSPERSED 



With Defcriptionsof SEATS of the NOBILITY andGENTRY; 

 and other remarkable Objects. 



Printed for W. Strahan ; W. Nicoll, No. 51. St. Paul'* 

 Church-yard; B.Collins at Salisbury; and J. Balfour at Edin- 

 burgh, and fold by all the Bookfellers inTown and Country. 



N. B. In the Minutes of this Tour are regiftered the Parti- 

 culars pfaboveTn REE HUNDRED ORIGINAL EXPERIMENTS 

 on various Points of Hufbandry; communicated by many of 

 the Nobility and Gentry; particularly on Cabbages, Carrots, 

 Potatoes, Lucerne, Sainfoine, Burnet, Graffes gathered by 

 Hand, Madder, Grain, and Pulfe drilled and horfe-hoed, 

 Manures, Draining, &c. &c. &c. 



Kf 3 " The Defign of this Tour is to fpread ufeful Know- 

 ledge of all Sorts, to difplay to one Part of the Kingdom the 

 Practices of the other, to remark wherein fuch Practice 13 

 hurtful, and wherein it is commendable. To draw forth 

 Spirited Examples of good Hufiandry from Obfcurity, and 

 difplay them as the proper Objefts of Imitation. 



" The Farmers in one Place grow rich by Methods that 

 would enrich their Brethren in another; but remain quite 

 unknown. 



II. A 



