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accounting for the flrong efFe<5l wliich un- 

 doubtedly accrues from laying the one on 

 the other. 



The moors have fcarcely any marks of 



former culture no tradition gives the 



lead trace of culture hiftory to the re- 



moteft: periods gives no reafon to fuppofe 

 thefe parts of the country ever in a rtate of 

 cultivation j the greateft tra6ls of them are 

 in the mountainous parts of the northern 

 counties, which, it isvi^ell knovi^n, v^ere for 

 ages over-run by frequent incurfions and 

 invafions of two neighbouring but hoflile 

 nations. In a word, there is much reafon 

 to fuppofe the moors at this day in the con- 

 dition they were three thoufand years ago 

 — with no other alterations than the cut- 

 ting and fpoihng the fpontaneous growth 

 by armies, or the poor for firing, and per- 

 haps, in fome inftances, for building. 

 They maintain fome flieep. 



The foil, as I before remarked, is a 

 black, loofe, fpungy fubflance : I conjec- 

 ture all thefe black parts to be literally 

 nothing but rotten vegetables, kept loofe 

 and open by the roots of the fpontaneous 

 growth. Thus, in fa6l, the foil is a dung- 

 hill } an opinion not very contrary to rea^ 



fon, 



