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6ool. a year. Farms are all fmall, none above 

 3 or 400 acres : many are taken in partner- 

 ihip, three, four, or five families to 100 acres. 

 They divide the land among themfelves, each 

 man taking according to his capital. The 

 terms rundale and changedale unknown, as is 

 the latter practice. There are no farms with- 

 out buildings upon them. Laying out money 

 in building better houfes would pay no intereft 

 at all, as they are perfectly fatisfied with their 

 mud cabbins. Courfes of crops on reclaimed 

 mountain, 



i. Marie for oats. 2. Bere. 3. Bere, 

 4. Wheat. 5. Oats, or Englifh. barley. 

 6. Oats. 7. Oats. 8. Oats. 9. Oats. 10. Oats. 

 The number of thefe crops of oats proportion- 

 ed to the quantity of marie laid on - t but the 

 rule is to take as long as the land will yield, 

 a*ul then leave it to recover itfelf by weeds. 

 Another courfe. 



i . Potatoes in drills on an exhaufted ftubble. 

 2. Bere. 3. Oats. 4. Oats. 5. Oats. 6. Oats, 

 and fo on till none will be got. 



The quantity of wheat'is very little ; for that 

 little they low a barrel an acre, and get 8 bar- 

 rels -, medium price, icd. to i3d. a ftone. Of 

 bere they fow a barrel, and get 15. Of oats 

 low two barrels, the produce 8 to 15, accord- 

 ing to being early or late in the courfe. Price 

 of bere, fix-pence to feven- pence halfpenny. 

 ?ats, four-pence to fix-pence per ftone. No 



peafe, 



