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quarter of the County, into this Diftriift : 

 felHng, here, at about 1 8d. a pair : while 

 the neighbourhood abounds in Af:) and 

 Sallow, with which the farmers might 

 make their own bows, or have them made, 

 at much lefs expence. 



XL Some of the TOOLS of this Coun- 

 try are not lefs peculiar, than are many of 

 its Implements. The shovel is pointed, 

 in the manner of the hay fpade of the North 

 of England ; refembling the marks on the 

 fuit of fpades, in playing cards : a circum- 

 ftantial evidence, this, that the tool under 

 notice was once the common fpade or fhovel 

 of the Ifland at large *. In this part of it, 

 it ftill fupplies the place of both fpade and 

 fhovel : there being no fuch tool as either 

 a fpade or a, fhovel, of the ordinary con- 

 ftrudion, in the hands of farmers or their 

 laborers. I have traced this tool as far 

 eaftward as Wiltfliire. In Dorfetiliire, it 

 is common. 



It is furniflied with a long, flrong, 



crooked 



* Or arc both Cards and pointed Shovels of French 

 origin t 



