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12 s. to 30 J. an acre: Farms rife from 10/. 

 to 200 /. a year. Their courfe is, 



I. Turnips — 2. Barley — 3. Oats. 



And I. Fallow — 2. Wheat — 3. Barley— 

 4. Oats. 



They plough four times for wheat, fow 

 10 pecks, and reap at an average 25 bufhels. 

 For barley after fallow they give five ftirrings, 

 after turnips one, fow 10 pecks and three 

 bufhels, and gain 45. For oats they plough 

 but once, fow live bufhels; the crop the 

 fame as of barley. Beans they plough but 

 once for, unlefs on ftrong clay after wheat, 

 when they ftir twice and fow, under furrow, 

 five bufhels to the acre broad-caft ; never hoe ; 



giving a fine curve, bends round a grafs in- 

 clofure, with a cottage, hay ftacks, (^c. and 

 then v/inds under the noble bank of hanging wood, 

 which you look down on from the tower. The 

 hills bound the valley moft beautifully, and con- 

 fine the view to a fmall but plealing extent. 

 That, feared with rock is a fine objedl ; and 

 the grafs inclofiires above its fteep of wood have 

 an elegant effect. To the left fome fcattered 

 houfes, and the churches, give a termination on 

 that fide which varies the profpecl. 



Winding down the flope towards the river, 

 the views continue very pleafing •, as you advance, 

 a little temple (Mr. Readjha'wh) at a diftance in 

 the vale, romantically fituated among hanging 

 woods, adds much to the fcene. The walk 

 borders the river through a meadow, and leads 



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