I. YORKSHIRE. 3 



Craven is well cultivated and rich in 

 foil, but not uniformly fo ; its furface being 

 broken : it is neither a valley, a vale, nor a 

 plain ; nor does it fall under the idea of a 

 mountainous or an upland country. It is 

 fmall, compared with the other Diftridts of 

 Weft Yorkfhire. 



The MANUFACTURING District is flrong- 

 ly featured. The northern and weftern parts 

 of it mix with barren mountains. The more 

 fouthern and eaftern limb, — a lovely decli- 

 vity flielving gently into the Vale of York, 

 is rich and highly cultivated ; excepting the 

 moft fouthern extremity, which partakes of 

 the fandy hills of Nottinghamfhire ; and ex- 

 cepting the mountains on its weftern margin, 

 which afiimilate with thofe of Derbyfhirc. 



The Vale of York is various in fertility. 

 The fens at its bafe, and a heathy plain, 

 part of the ancient foreft of Galtres, north- 

 eaftward of the city of York, are drawbacks 

 upon its produdtivenefs. In a general view, 

 however, it has not, in this country, its equal. 



The vales of Gloucefter and Evefham are 



more fertile, but lefs cxtenfive. The wide 



flat of country which lies between the hills of 



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