WEST DEVONSHIRE. 31 



cafes, with fragments lyiTig loofe in the 

 indentures. Speaking with Httle if any 

 latitude, there was not, then, a wheel 

 carriage in the Diftri(5t ; nor, fortunately 

 for the necks of travellers, any horfes but 

 thofe which were natives of the country* 



At length, however, good turnpike roads 

 are formed, between town and town> 

 throughout this quarter of the Ifland ; and 

 moft of the villages have carriage roads 

 opened to them ; though many of thefe 

 by roads, as yet, are narrow, and abound 

 with fteeps. In Devonfliire, as in other 

 mountainous countries, the firil inhabitants 

 crofTed the hills, on foot, in flraight forward 

 paths. When horfes came into ufe, the 

 fame tracks were purfued ; and fome of 

 them have been continued, in ufe, to the 

 prefent time. 



In CLOSURES. This DiilrlcSt has no 

 traces of common fields. The cultivated 

 lands are all ihclofed ; moflly in well lized 

 inclofures ; generally large in proportion to 

 the lizes of farms. 



They have every appearance of having 

 been formed from a Hate of common paf- 



ture ; 



