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all employed in various branches, and 

 earn very good wages, much more than 

 by fpinning wool in any part of the king- 

 dom. The poor's rates in this town gene- 

 rally run at about 4 s. in the pound. All 

 I converfed with allured me, that their 

 bufincfs lias never been fo great fince, as 

 it was during the war : Every branch was 

 then ftrained to an unufual brifknefs. 



The country between Sheffield and Bam- 

 Jley is line ; it abounds with the beauties 

 of landfcape, and has a pleafing variety. 

 The foil is in general good, and the crops 

 the fune. At Ecclesfield I converfed with 

 a fcnfible farmer, whole account of their 

 hufbandry was this : 



Farms run from 20 /. to 80 /. and the 

 rent of land from 14 j-. to 20 s. an acre. 

 Their courfe of crops, 



1. Fallow 3. Clover 



2. Wheat 4. Wheat. 

 This is very bad hufbandry. Another is, 



1. Fallow 3. Oats 



2. Wheat 



They plough five times for wheat, fovr 



ten pecks, and reckon the mean produce 



at 20 bufhels. For barley they give five 



hs, low 3! bufhels, and get on an 



rage 4 quarters. For oats they ftir but 



once, fow five bufhels, and get in return 



ir quarters. For peafe they likewife 



but one earth, fow three bufhels, and 



reckon 



