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Three miles to the fouth of Carlijle, land 

 letts at about 15/. an acre at an average. 

 Farms from 20/. to 200/. a year. In as 

 many more, they are not fo large, from 30/. 

 to 120/. and rents from is. to 20 s. an acre. 



About High Afcot the foil varies from a 

 light loam and gravel to a clay, letts from 

 10 j". to 20 J. an acre. 



Farms from 10/. to 100/. a year. 



Their courfes are, 



1. Fallow And, 1. Turneps 



2. Wheat 2. Barley 



3. Oats 3. Clover for 



4. Peafe. three years. 



here. It has been obferved, that the Pifts Wall 

 begins at this place, h is now the feat of Thomas 

 Laivfon, Efq; who has greatly improved the vil- 

 lage, by new buildings, and by paving the ftreets. 

 In that gentleman's ground feveral curious ftones, 

 and Roman inferiptions, have been dug up, which 

 are now preferved by him. 



Calder Abbey, near Egremont, a place cf great 

 antiquity. 

 Calder Abbey is fi mated on the river Calder. 

 This abbey was an abbey of Ciftercians, founded 

 A. D. 1 134, by Ranulph de Me/chines, Earl of 

 Cumberland, afterwards fecond Earl of Chejier, 

 and was endowed by him, and feveral other bene- 

 factors, with divers lands and pofTefllons, all which 

 were confirmed to the abbot and monks by king 

 Henry the Second. It has Hnce been the feat of 

 the family of P atrickfons ; and afterwards came, 

 by purchafe, to JohnTiffin, Gent, who bequeathed 

 it, by will, to his grandfon John Senhoufe, Eiq; 

 whofe feat it now is. 



