SIX MONTHS TOUR 



THROUGH THE 



NORTH of ENGLAND. 



CONTAINING, 



An Account of the prefent State of Agriculture, 



Manufactures and Population, in feveral 



Counties of this Kingdom. 



P A R T I C 



I. The Nature, Value, and Rental 

 of the Soil. 



II. The Size of Farms, with Ac- 

 counts of their Stock, Products, 

 Population, and various Methods 

 of Culture. 



III. The Ufe, Expence, and Profit 

 of feveral Sorts of Manure. 



IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the 

 refpeclive Profits attending them. 



V. The State of the Wafte Lands 

 which might and ought to be 

 cultivated. 



U L A R L Y, 



VI. The Condition and Number 

 of the Poor, with their Rates, 

 Earnings, tiff. 



VII. The Prices of Labour and 

 Provisions, and the Proportion 

 between them. 



VIII. The Regifter of many cu- 

 rious and ufeful Experiments in 

 Agriculture, and general Prac- 

 tices in Rural Oeccnomics, com- 

 municated by feveral of the No- 

 bility, Gentry, 63V. &c. 



INTERSPERSED 



With Defcriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; 

 and other remarkable Objects s Illuftrated with Copper Plates of 

 fuch Implements of Hu/bandry, as deferve to be generally known ; 

 and Views of fome pidturefque Scenes, which occurred in the Courfe 

 of the Journey. 



La feule voie de fe procurer un corps complet d'agriculture feroit, fans 

 doute, de raffembler les divetfes observations qu'auroient fourni dans 

 chaque province. Enc yclopeihe. 



The SECOND EDITION, corre&ed and enlarged. 

 VOL. III. 



LONDON, 



Printed for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, N°5i, in Su 



Paul's Church-Yard; T. Cadell, in the Strand j 



B, Collins, at Salifbury ; and J. Balfour, at 



Edinburgh. 



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MDCCLXXI. 



