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fheep. They manure it as much as they can, 

 but that is no great matter. Their breed of 

 cattle is the long-horned, and have fatted 

 them fo high as an hundred and thirty ftone, 

 but very uncommon j fixty to eighty common. 

 The product of a cow they reckon at 5 /. 

 and four gallons the common quantity of 

 milk per day: As to fwine, they keep 

 none, upon account of cows: A farmer 



under a fine, thick, hanging wood, with a raging 

 torrent breaking through it, over rocks, juft ietn. 

 between the wood and Barrow -fide, but heard in 

 the moft ftriking manner. — You next anchor 

 in a bay, the environs of which are dreadful; 

 you are under a monftrous craggy rock, (Throng 

 Crag,) fcattered with fhrubby wood to the very 

 edge, and almoft perpendicular •, and moving 

 the eye from it, you find this end of the 

 lake furrounded with a chain of them, in the 

 boldeft and abrupteft ftile imaginable. The op- 

 pofite more of mountains very great ; and the 

 effect of all greatly heightened by the noife of 

 diftant water-falls. 



From hence you coaft a dreadful fhore of frag- 

 ments, which time has broken from the towering 

 rocks, many of them of a terrible fize ; fome 

 flopped on the land by larger than themfelves, 

 and others rolled into the lake, through a path of 

 defolation, fweeping trees, hillocks, and every 

 thing to the water •, the very idea of a fmall fhiver 

 againft the boat ftrikes with horror. 



Advancing, you catch the view of a moft beau- 

 tiful water-fall, within the wave of a gentle bend 

 of the rocks •, bui to enjoy the full luxuriance of 



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