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arable lands, and confequently improving 

 the crops of corn. 



in this part of York/hire, the foil is in 

 general good turnip land, and the farmers 

 have fhewn they are of the fame opinion, 

 by introducing them ; but their culture is 

 fo wretchedly defective, that I may, with- 

 out the imputation of a paradox, aflert, 

 they had better have let it alone. Very 

 few of them hoe at all, and thofe who do, 

 execute it in fo flovenly a way, that nei- 

 ther the crop or the land are the leaft the 

 better for it. With fuch management, tur- 

 nips are by no means beneficial in a courfe 



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may be fecn from the houfe among the flems of 

 the young trees, than which nothing can have 

 a finer effect ; for as the grove will be dark, the 

 water, when the fun mines on it, will appear 

 »ugh the trees in the molt pifturefque man- 

 ner On the right fide, the water will flow 



far up the valley, and be terminated by wood, 

 with an ornamented bridge in the fhade of it. 

 On one fide of the water is to be a pleafure- 

 ground, in a fequeftered hollow of varied ground, 

 icattered with old thorns and large timber trees; 

 fome of thele are to be thrown into clumps by 

 the addition of flowering ihiubs, and the grais 

 kept cloiely fhaven. From many parts of it 

 views of the water v/ill be various and pic- 

 tureique in fome lpots: It will flow up among 



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