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hot upon a farm ; and nearly the fame may 

 be l^id at prefent. Hay, corn, flraw, fuel, 

 fcones, dung, lime, &c. are, in the ordinary 

 practice of the Diflrid, ftill carried on 

 horfeback. 



This, to a fhranger, forms a ftriking fea- 

 ture of management. Before the invention 

 of wheel carriages, thefe modes of transfer 

 were of courfe univerfal throughout the 

 Ifland, and the reafon of its being continued 

 fo long, in this Diflri<!t, has no doubt been, 

 in part, the unlevelnefs of its furface. But 

 there are other Diftrid:s, the cultured parts 

 of whofe furface s are much fteeper than 

 thofe of Devonihire (for reafons already 

 given) ; and the continuance of the prac- 

 tice, here, has been in a great meafure 

 owing to a want of judgment in laying out 

 roads -, or a want of fpirit in executing 

 them y arifmg from a backwardnefs, in all 

 matters of nnprovement. There are farms 

 of fome hundred acres, lying perfectly well 

 for wheel carriages ; as level as farms in 

 general throughout the Ifland ; yet have 

 not a wheel carriage belonging to them. 



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