-82 M P. E L A N D S. 23. 



attendance, hazard *, falving, and a little hay 

 in winter when the heath is buried in fnow, 

 may be laid at two (hillings and fixpence 

 a-head -f-. 



Confequently the YEARLY PRODUCE or 



THE HERBAGE, at prefent, IS THREEPENCE AN 



ACRE ; at which rate much of it was valued 

 by the Commiffioners under the Pickering 

 Bill of Inclofurc}. 



The IMPROVEMENTS which have been at- 

 tempted among thefe hills require now to be 

 mentioned. 



The 



* A Moreland farmer reckons that if half the num- 

 ber he breeds, reach a market he has tolerable luck. 



-,' This calculation is made on the advanced price 

 which ihccp have borne, on a par of the laft tern years. 

 There arc who affert that if attendance were rigidly 

 calculated, no neat profit whatever vvould arife from 

 keeping flu ep on thefe heaths. But the number of little 

 jortuncs which have been made in the Moreland dales, 

 . j'i'iliejnally, it is believed, by keeping iheep, contradict 



ibis alTcj.nrn. 



t Kefides the berlnge, the fuel which is pared < ff the 



fiivface aud cut out of the bogs, may be confidered at 



p'/eitm a* a fpccies of PRODUCE. 



The Pickevi. g highmoor al!orments, containing 

 nvonty acies or upward, are now feUi'ig for ten pounJs 

 <":!';h. Th' % fee-fimplc of three of thefe allotments, con- 

 taining near one hundred acres, were pure ha fed the, 

 t-thcr dfjy f-Ji" thirty pounds. 



