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They plow but once for barley, fow two 

 bulhels, and gain about twenty. For oats 

 they give three or four plowings, fow feven 

 bufhels and a half, and gain thirty-five in 

 jeturn. 



Goodgrafs letts at 20f. and 25J. an acre; 

 it is ufed both for dairying and fatting, but 

 chiefly the latter : An acre they reckon will 

 keep a cow through the fummer, or fix 



little ruinous bridge, you look upon a hollow of 

 rocks and woods, with a ftream pouring down the 

 clefts in many meets, and feen among the trees in 

 the moft picturefque manner-, a romantic fceneof 

 rock, wood, and water, thirty feet high. 



Rowing from hence, under Barrow Crag, the 

 more is rocky, and various : Faffing fome low 

 ground, and landing on a rifing one, the view 

 is exquifite. The water breaks into bays and 

 fheets, ftretching away from the eye between 

 the Stable Hills, Lord's IJland, and Vicar's IJland : 

 Brampjholm cuts in the middle •, and St. Alban's 

 ljle prefents his broad fide to your full view. 

 At the other end of the lake, the rifing hills, part 

 of cultivated, waving inclofures, and part of 

 hanging woods, all fcattered with white houfes, 

 and the whole crowned with the lofty moun- 

 tains, are beautifully piclurefque, and contrail: with 

 the view of the fouth end of the lake, around 

 which the rocks and mountains are tremendoufly 

 bold, pendent, and threatening. 



Following the coaft, the more is thinly fringed 

 with wood •, then you row around a projecting 

 land, containing feveral inclofures, and come 



under 



