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About Penrith there are variations, which 

 deferve noting. The foil is of divers forts, 

 clay, fand, gravel, loam, and black moory 

 earth. The medium rent of that inclofed 

 is 15/. the uninclofed, 2 s. 6 d. and 3J. 6d. 



Farms rife from 10/. a year, fo high as 

 700/. but in general from 80/. to 150/. 

 Their courfes are, 



Another, 



1. Turneps 1. Oatsonthegrafs 



2. Barley broke up 



3. Clover 2. Barley 



4. Wheat 3. Oats 



5. Oats. 4. Oats 



5. Peafe 



6. Barley. 

 This is capital, indeed ! but very common; 



for much land, even within two or three 

 miles of Penrith, hath been fown every 

 year with either barley, oats, or peafe, for 

 thefe feventy years. This information afto- 

 nifhed me ; I inquired the produce on fuch 

 land, and found it reckoned as good, upon 

 the whole, as other foils, managed upon 

 more modern principles -, five or fix for one 

 of oats, and when wheat happens to be 

 fown, ten or eleven for one. Fallowing is a 

 new fafiion, and not perfectly relifhed by 

 the farmers yet. 



In a common way they generally plow for 



wheat from three to fix times, fow two 



bufhels about Michaelmas, and gain, upon 



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