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But national policy and commerce make 

 no part of the prefent defign ; unlefs when 

 they are intimately connedtcd with rural 

 icoNOMics. It therefore remains to view 

 the county as a subject of rural economy. 



No country entirely mountainous, nor one 

 which is diilurbed by manufa<fture, can be 

 a fit fubjcdt of ftudy for rural knowledge. 

 The western division of the county falls 

 chiefly under one or other of thefe defcrip- 

 tions. There are no doubt lands in Weft 

 Yorkfhire which are highly cultivated ; efpc- 

 cially aboyt Doncafter, toward Ferrybridge • 

 a pafllige worth perufing. But if We attend 

 to the EASTERN DIVISION', wc fhall find col- 

 lected, vv'ithin comprehenfive limits, almofl 

 every defcription of country which is intc- 

 rcfting in rural aflairs. A rich, well culti- 

 vated plain ; a group of almoft barren moun- 

 tains, inviting objeds of improvement -, a 

 fertile vale, various in foil and cultivation ; 

 with a trad of chalky downs, terminating 

 in a rich marfliland fenny country : includ- 

 ing grafs land of every clafs, and arable land 

 of almoft every defcription. It is the iflanc^ 

 in miniature. 



