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Wild grafs, called white earth, greatly fuf- 

 ceptible of improvement : The very worft of 

 thefe trads, according to the teftimony of 

 the country people themfelves, are capable 

 of being converted into good grafs fields ; 

 7 J". 6 d. per 2iCXQ is a very low rent for fuch 

 •grafs as I obferved was gained from the 

 moors, fo near fo many other fields that pay 

 25 J-. an acre : But even at that fmall rent 

 the vafl benefit of improving is fufhciently 

 manifeil : The turnips they get the firft 

 year, I found were generally reckoned to 



vales to the left are wonderfully pleafing : In 

 feme places the road hangs over the Tees on the 

 brink of wild precipices ; in others the river 

 winds from it. The plain is about a mile and 

 an half broad, and furrounded with mountains, 

 fo that the pidlure is every where complete and 

 bounded : The ferpentine courfe of the Tees is 

 very fine ; it bends into noble flieets of v/ater 

 quite acrofs the valley •, and feems to call for the 

 proud burthen of fwelling fails to finiHi fo com- 

 plete a fcene. 



Nothing can be more pleafing than the nu- 

 merous inclofures on the banks of the river^ 

 clothed with the frefheft verdure, and cut by 

 hedges full of clumps of wood, and fcattered 

 with flraggling trees : The villages enliven every 

 part. From the hills around this paradile, innu- 

 merable cafcades pour down the rocky clefts, 

 and render every fpot romiantic. 



Purfuing your track through this delicious 



region, you crof§ fome wild moors, which contrail 



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