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They feed them both winter and fpring 

 on the commons. The average of the 

 fleeces 3//^. 



They reckon fix horfes neceflary for the 

 management of 100 acres of arable land; 

 ufe two or four in a plough, as the foil isj 

 and do three acres in two days. They ac- 

 count the expence of keeping a horfe at 

 6 /. a year. The fummer joift 2 /. 2s. 



They do not begin to fallow till after the 

 barley fowing. The price per acre of 

 ploughing 5^. and 5 j-. 6 d, and the com- 

 mon depth four inches. 



They know nothing of cutting ftraw for 

 chaff. The hire of a one horfe cart zs. 6d. 

 a day. 



Three hundred pounds they affert is a 

 fum fufficient for flocking a farm of 100 A 

 a year. 



Land fells in general at about thirty 

 years purchafe. 



Tythes in general gathered. 



Poor rates at Penrith is. 3 ^. in tlie 



pound. In the country parifhes td. and 



upwards, biit in fome nothing at all. The 



employment of the v/omen and children 



fpinning, and fome knitting : All drink tea. 



Many eflates from 40 /. to 200/. a year. 



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