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or dell. A fultable fhelter, and a rill of 

 water, appear to have been principal ob- 

 je(fts, in the choice of farmfleads. 



In fituations deflitute of natural rills, 

 " LEATS," or made rills, are cut, and 

 have been time immemorial employed, in 

 bringing what is called, in the pure lan- 

 guage of fnnplicity, " potwater" — tQ 

 farm houfes, and hamlets of cottages, in 

 upland lituations : an admirable expedient, 

 which is applicable in many parts of the 

 Ifland : yet which, until of late years, in 

 Yorkfhire *, has never been pradtifed per- 

 haps out of this extreme part of the Ifland. 

 How flow has hitherto been the progrefs of 

 rural improvements;! 



The PLANS OF FARMEi?.^iESi lieic, havc 

 nothing tQ engage particular attention. 

 The barna are fmall ; and the cattle yards 

 furniihed moftly with open fheds — prov. 

 *' linhays," witji troughs or mangers in 

 the back parts, to hold fodder. 



Sornetimes thefe linhays are double : the 

 fame fpan roof fm-nifliing two ranges of 



flieds^ 



♦ S.ce York. Econ. Vol. I. page 174* 



