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LETTER XVII. 



"PROM Glenwelt to Brampton, I pafTed 

 -*• over fome moors of an excellent fandy 

 loam, and yet quite uncultivated. The in- 

 clofed lands are good, lettfrom 10 s. to 25-$". 

 per acre ; farms from 10/. to 100 /. 



At Carlijle is a confiderable ftampery or 

 printed cottons, eftablifhed by fome manu- 

 facturers from Newcaflle -, the labourers in it 

 earn from is. to 3*. a day. Alfo a manu- 

 facture of checks, which employs many 

 looms ; the earnings from is. to is. 3 d. 

 a day *, 



* Since the firft edition of thefe papers, I have 

 been requetted, in an anonymous letter, to infert 

 the following accounts, 



Bownefs, below Carlifie, in Cumberland. 



Bownefs, formerly called Bulnefs, which was the 

 ancient town Blatum, or Blalum Bulgium of the 

 Romans. It is feated on the Solway Frith ; and by 

 tracks of ftreets, and ruinous walls, do declare it 

 to have been of good account. Several Rowan 

 coins and inferiptions have been found •, and fome 

 years ago a fmall brazen figure was dug up, 

 which was thought to reprefent either a Mercury, or 

 a Victory. From being the principal town of a large 

 manor, containing feveral hamlets, it is now reduced 

 to a imall village-, but the mother church is ftill 



here. 



