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Where marie, clay or chalk is the manure^ 

 feveral yea/s muft elapfe before an improve- 

 ment can be expeded to yield any profit^ 

 but paring, burning and liming are all per- 

 formed m this country for a guinea and an 

 half per acre, a fum which the turnips, the 

 very firft year, more than pay. 



Returning to Bows^ I continued tne road 

 to Brough — -a line of 1 2 miles, and not more 

 than three cultivated, full nine that yield rio 

 profit — fcarce that of feeding Iheep; and 

 \vhat foil may it be from hence fuppofed ? 



prodigious. Making ufc of our hands as well 

 as feet, and defcending alnioft like parrots, we 

 crawled from rock to rock, and reached from 

 bough to bough, till Ave got to the bostom under 

 this noble fall. Noble indeed ! for the whole 

 river, (no trifling one) divided by one rock, into 

 two vail torrents, pours down a perpendicular 

 precipice of near fonrfcore feet : The deluging 

 force of the water throws up fuch a foam and 

 mifty rain, tliat the fun never fnines without the 

 appearance of a large and brilliant rain-bow. 

 The whole fcene is glorioufly romantic \ for on 

 every nde it v> walled in with pendent rocks an 

 hundred feet high •, here projecting in bold and 

 threatening cliffs, and there co\ creel with hanging 

 Woods, v^hole only nourifliment one would imagine 

 arole from the defcending rain. 



I attempted a flight ficerch of it, 'but it is far 

 Ihort of the original. See plate II. 



Leaving tliis tremendous fcene, I difmifTed th^ 



guide-, and attempting to penetracc further 



N 4 among 



