50 DISTRICT. 



more eligible, for all parties, with refped; 

 to the exifling crop, than that of collecSting 

 tithes in kind. But, with refped: to the 

 difcouragement of improvements in Agri- 

 culture, they are precifely equivalent. 



3. Poor's rate. It is worthy of 

 remark, that, notwithftanding the wages of 

 the country are low, as will hereafter ap- 

 pear, the pariih rates are moderate. In 

 Buckland, and the contiguous pariihes, the 

 poor's rate, on a par, is not more than two 

 Ihillings in the pound, rack rent. 



This fad:, perhaps, may be the beil 

 accounted for, in the circumll:ance of the 

 wool, which the country produces, being 

 manufadlured within it : not, however, in 

 public manufadories, by the dilTolute of 

 every age and fex, drawn together from all 

 quarters, as if for the purpofe of promoting 

 difTolutenefs, debility, and wretchednefs : 

 but in private families ; by men, women, 

 and children, who, by this employment, 

 are kept at their own houfes, are enured to 

 habits of induftry, are enabled to fupport 

 themfelves, at all feafons, and are always 

 at hand, to alTift in the works of huf- 



bandry. 



