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ing with turnips, oats and hard corn, and 

 laying down with grafs fecdss have been 

 immediately advanced to ^s. 6d, an acre, 

 at which rent they now remain. The turnips 

 they get in this manner are very good, but 

 the oats their great crop, and very confider- 

 able. They fcarce ever lofe any crops by not 

 ripening, a notion common in fome parts 

 of TorkJJjire. 



To the north, weft, and north-weft of 

 this country, there are vaft traQs of moors 

 covered, fome with Hng, and others with a 



an extenfive valley interfered by hedges and a 

 few walls into fweet inclofures, which being quite 

 below the point of view are feen diftinft, though 

 almofl numberlefs •, the fcattered trees, the houfes, 

 villages, i^c. &c. ornament the fcene, in a 

 manner too elegant to admit dcfcription. Be- 

 neath your f^et at the bottom of a vaft precipice, 

 rolls the Tees, which breaks into noble fheets of 

 water, and throws a magnificence over the fcene, 

 that is greatly ftriking j another river winding 

 through the vale, falls into the mafter of its 

 current and its name. Together, they exhibit 

 no lefs than twenty-two ftieets of water fcattered 

 over the plain in the moft exquifite manner ; the 

 trembling; refledlion of the fun-beams from fo 

 many fpots in fuch a range of beauty, has an 

 effect aftoniftiingly fine : Elegant beyond all 

 imagination. 



After you leave Middleton, the eye of the 

 traveller is again feafted with the moft luxuriant 

 beauties that inanir.^itc nature can exliibit. The 



vales 



