[ I2 7 ] 



In winter, 6 d. and ditto. 



Mowing, 3 s. 



Head man's wages, g I. 



Next ditto, y I. 10 s. 



Boy of ten or twelve years, 50 s. 



Maids, 4 /. to 5 /. 



Women per day in harveft, 6 d. and board. 



In hay time, ditto. 



be exhibited with a little art, in a variety that 

 would amaze. 



It is amufing to think of the pains and expence 

 with which the environs of feveral feats have been 

 ornamented, to produce pretty fcenes, it is true ; 

 but how very far fhort of the wonders that might 

 here be held up to the eye in all the rich luxuriance 

 of nature's painting. What are the efFefts of a 

 Louis's magnificence to the play of nature in the 

 vale of Kefwick! How trifling the labours of art 

 to the mere fport of nature ! 



It is the contemplation of fuch amazing fcenes, 

 that fills the foul with admiration and almoft 

 overpowers her faculties : One is loft in wonder 

 at the omnipotence of a Being, the fplendor of 

 whofe exigence exhibits itfelf in works of fuch 

 endlefs variety. 



Returning to Penrith, our next expedition was 

 to Hulls Water, a noble lake, about fix miles from 

 that town : The approach to it is beautiful ; the moft 

 advantageous way of feeing it is to take the road 

 up Dunmanlot Hill, for you rife up a very beauti- 

 ful planted dope, and fee nothing of the water till 

 you gain the fummit, when the view is uncom- 

 monly fine. You look down at once upon one 

 fheet of the lake, which appears prodigioufly 

 magnificent. It is an oblong water, cut by 



iflands, 



