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generally eats an acre and an half of hay, 

 and they are kept in houfe. The fummer 

 joift from 14^. to 40 s. 



Their flocks of fheep rife from five to 

 fifteen hundred. They fell no lambs, but 

 rear thern for weathers, at from 7 s. to 1 4 s. 

 The profit, per head, of the flock, about 5 s. 

 Keep them, both winter and fpring, on the 

 commons : The weight of the fleeces 3 or 

 4 lb. at 3 d. 



Following the coaft you fail round a fweet little 

 Sfland, a clump of wood growing out of the lake ; 

 but it is joined to the main land when the water 

 is very low. From hence, purfuing the voyage, 

 you come into the narrow part of the lake, and 

 have a full view of moft romantic terrible craggy 

 rocks, inclofing a noble cafcade : It is a view that 

 mull: aftonifh the fpcctator. You look up to two 

 dreadful pointed rocks, of a vaft height, which 

 almoft hang over your head, partly fcattered with 

 fhrubby wood, in the wildeft tafte of nature. 

 Between them is a precipice of broken craggy 

 rock, over which a raging torrent foams down in 

 one vaft meet of water, feveral yards wide, juft 

 broken into ebullitions by the points of the rocks 

 unfeen. At another time I faw it, when the rock 

 appeared, and the ftream was broken by it into 

 feveral gufhing torrents, which feemed to ifiue 

 diftinclly from clefts, in the moft piclurefque man- 

 ner imaginable: The water is loft in one fpor, 

 caught again in another ; foaming out of this cleft 

 with rufhing impetuofity, and trickling down that 

 with the moft pleafing elegance. Nothing can be 

 fancied more grand, more beautiful, or romantic. 



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