SOUTH HAMS, 3^93 



would be unreafonable to look for many of 

 that valuable order of men, who are ufually 

 ftyled CAPITAL Farmers. At the fair 

 of Plympton, or at the market of Kingf^ 

 bridge, I faw no appearance of men of this 

 rank in fociety. Neverthelefs, men of en^ 

 lightened minds are familiarly fpoken of. 

 Indeed, from fome modern improvements, 

 which will appear in this detail, to have been 

 introduced into the Diflrid:, we might fafely 

 conclude, without other evidence, that it 

 pofTefles men, who think for themfelves, 

 and ad without the authority of their an^ 

 ceflors, 



III. BEASTS OF LABOR . Thefe are 

 Oxen, Horses, and Asses : the laft being 

 not uncommonly ufed for pack loads. 



The PLOW TEAM is four or fix oxen j 

 or four light, or two heavier oxen, with two 

 horfes before them ; or three, or in fome 

 inftances, two horfes, — with a boy, or a 

 man, to drive, or lead them ! 



AROADTEAMldo not recoUed to have 

 feent out of the public road, between Exeter 

 ^nd Plymouth : and very few in it. Pack 



U 3 HORSES, 



