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The Produce of its Is^arm lands varies 

 in different parts of the Diftridt. Not only 

 the bottoms or coombs, in every part, arc 

 kept in a ftate of permanent grafs ; but, iri 

 fome parts, the fides, and even the fummits, 

 of the fwells, particularly about Totnefs, 

 are preferved in the fame flate. And al- 

 though I obferved no extenfive plots, of 

 fuch lands, as there are about My Iton Abbots 

 and Lamerton ; yet, perhaps, taking the 

 Diftrid: throughout, the proportion of per- 

 manent grafsland, in the South Hams> is 

 fequal to that, in Wefl Devonfhire. 



XV. THE APPEARANCE OF THE 

 COUNTRY. Notwithflanding the ex- 

 traordinary beauty of the ground, or natural 

 furface, of this Diflridl, it is far from being 

 rich in pidiurable fcenery. Square fields, 

 and flraight lines of Hedgewood, how pro^ 

 fitable foever they may be to the Farmer, 

 and pleafurable to a mind reflecting on their 

 utility, — are not grateful to an eye, viewing 

 them in the light of Ornament. 



This, however, apphes mofl clofely to 

 the area, or more central parts, of the South 



Vol. I. U Hams. 



