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Kingfhridge ; excepting a high fweil or 

 fwells, the foil of v/hich is much inferior 

 to any, in the foregoing I'ide : — The produce 

 furzey, incHnable to Jicath : one of the 

 Chudleigh Hills thrown in here. Much 

 red foil appears in this ride. The water 

 of the road, in £ome places, red almoil as 

 blood. 



■Environs of Totness. The foil of 

 •thefe Hills is rich in the extreme, — even 

 to their very fumniits ! mofl: rich gracing 

 ground. Autumnal grafs, near a foot long, 

 now reclining on the ground ; as grofs, 

 and as darkly green> as the autumnal herbage 

 of the Vale of Berkley. 



Tot NESS to Ivy bridge. The foil 

 iimilar to that of the central and more 

 Southern parts of the Diflrid ; . but, on the 

 whole, not fo ?ood. 



IvYSRiDGE, A rich plot of ground to 

 the Eafl: of the Yalm : — a deep loam on a 

 fort of gravel : worth, to a Farmer, thirty 

 or forty {hillings, an acre. 



Sherford Estate. The Country Is 

 at prefent fo completely burnt up, with the 



inveterate 



