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21. 



HOLDERNESS. 



THIS IS the only Diftrict of the county 

 I have not been in. I have repeatedly look- 

 ed over its furface, and been upon its bor- 

 ders ; but never went over its area. I pur- 

 pofed to have gone over it this year (1787), 

 but the Vale employed my whole attention, 

 during fummer ; and the extreme wetncfs of 

 the autumn would have prevented me from 

 vifiting a fen country at that feafon, had lei- 

 fure permitted it. 



The objects of hufbandry, and the means 

 of obtaining them, are, I have always under- 

 Itood, fimilar to thofe of the Vale of Picker- 

 ing : neverthelefs, Holdcrncfs may have its 

 partial excellencies ; as almoft every Diftrift 

 has, in a greater or lefs degree, 



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