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SIX MONTHS TOUR, &c. 



LETTER XV. 



FROM Raby to Durham the land is in 

 general very good, letting fo high as 

 from \$s. to 3/. but the average is 

 not above 2U. or 22/. Farms in general 

 under an hundred a year. 



About that city there is much muftard 

 cultivated : The farmers fow it alone, on 

 good rich moift land ; and on that which 

 is pared and burnt. They get from thirty to 

 an hundred bufhels per acre ; and the price 

 varies from 10s. to 20s. a bufhel ; fome crops 

 worth 100/. an acre have been known. 

 When once muftard has been fown on a 

 piece of land, it can never be got out again : 

 In tillage it rifes with every crop that is 

 fown, which obliges the farmers to lay down 

 fuch lands to grafs, which fmothers it, but 

 if broke up again centuries afterwards, a 

 crop of muftard is fure to rife. 



Taking the road to Newcaftk *, we found 



* The ornamented grounds of Carr, Efq; 



at Cocken, are laid out with fo much tafte, that 

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