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 maid, they reckon, can take care of eight 

 cows; calves fuck from five to fix weeks, 

 both for rearing and the butcher. 



Sheep they reckon, I know not for what 

 reafon, hurtful among milch cows ; their 

 flocks are from twenty to an hundred and 

 fifty, the profit 5J. or bs. per fheep; keep 

 them all the year in the field ; the medium 

 of their fleeces 6 or j lb. from ^d. to 5*/. 

 £er lb. 



In the tillage of their lands they reckon 

 four horfes necefiary for fifty acres of arable 



lake, edged with fome {presiding trees, through 

 which the view of the grafs is an abfolute picture. 

 Other waving dopes of inclofures, to the right, 

 hang to the lake, under the fhade of a rough, 

 wild hill, and down to a fkirting of wood, on 

 the water's edge, in the moft pleafing manner. 

 Behind, the rocky cliff of Fournefs Fells, has a 

 noble appeara.ee, :row . 1 with a fweep of wood. 



Sailing under the weftcrn more, you command 

 moft beautiful landfcapes on the oppofite one, 

 confiding of banks of cultivated inclofures, 

 fcattered with trees, clumps of wood, farm 

 houfes, &c. and hanging to the water's edge in 

 the molt charming variety of fituation ; the fields 

 in fome places dipping in the very lake, in others 

 thick woods rifing from the water •, fcenes which 

 call for the pencil of a genius to catch graces 

 from nature beyond the reach of the moft elabo- 

 rate art. 



Coming to Ling Holm, a fm all rocky ifland, 

 with a few trees on it, you have a double view of 

 the two mores, well contrafted, the weftern 



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