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 lime ; he has iifed it for fome time, and 

 finds that nothing anfwers fo well. 



Mr. Lightfoot keeps fourteen cows, of 

 which he makes 40 firkins of butter, befides 

 cheefe enough for his family, the price 25 j* 

 a firkin. If no cheefe is made, he has from 

 fix to nine pounds of butter a week per cow. 

 But the objed: much the moft w^orthy of 

 attention in this country, is the immenfe 

 tra£t of moors which back it to the weft- 

 ward. Mr. Danby poffefTes feveral thoufands 

 of contiguous acres, which do not yield 

 him a tenth part as many farthings a year. 

 And among his neighbours, the Duke of 

 Bolton^ the Earl of Litchjicid^ Lord Brucej 

 ^x.AiJlabie^ and Mr. Tork^ likewife poiTefs 

 vaft tracts of thefe wafte lands which call fo 

 loudly for improvement. 



As I was particularly attentive to all the 

 accounts I could gain of thefe moors, and 

 rode over and examined them feveral times, 

 I can lay an account of them before you, 

 which is perfectly genuine. 



I divide them into the follovv^ing- forts. 

 Firji^ The dry moors, to appearance almofl: 

 covered with grit flone, many of them 

 very large. The fpontaneous growth, 

 ling of various height, from one foot 

 to three. The foil a light black moory 

 earth, from 10 inches to a yard deep, 

 and under that a channelly fandy 

 gravel. 



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