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The foil about Shapp is generally a loam 

 upon a lime-ftone, in ibme places thin, but 

 in others deep ; letts from i s. to 20L an 

 acre; but the inclofures generally 20;. 



Farms from 40/. to 400/. a year. [ 



Their courfe, 



1. Break up, and fovv oats 



2. Oats 



3. Barley 



4. Oats, and then down again. 

 This is execrable. 



glitter through the tremulous curl of the furface 

 like io many diamonds. You row to the left, pafs 

 a variety of ihore, here rocky and projecting, 

 fhere low and retiring ; coaft a planted ifland, and 

 coming under Wallow Crag, one of the immenfe 

 rocks before mentioned, you have from its foot 

 a very fine view : The furrounding rocks and 

 mountains are noble ; the crag above you, 

 fringed about a third of its height with pendent 

 woods ; the lake at your feet breaks beautifully 

 into a bay behind a promontory, called Stable 

 Hills -, againft it is Brampjholm Ifland * ; and over 

 the low part of the promontory you catch the 

 wood on Lord's Ifland, in a very pleafing manner. 

 The oppofite fhore is beautifully fcattered with 

 hanging woods, and fome white houfes give a 

 livelinefs to the view truly agreeable. 



Taking your boat again, and rowing till you 

 are oppofite the opening between Wallow and 

 Barrow Crags, the noife of a water-fall unfeen, 

 will induce you to land again ; walking on to a 



* Belonging to Greenwich Hofpital. 



I 2 little 



