236 OBober 1748. 



Here, and on the whole journey before, I 

 obferved a prefs for cyder at every farm- 

 houfe, made in different manners, by which 

 the people had already prefled the juice out 

 of the apples, or were juft bufied with that 

 work. Some people made ufe of a wheel 

 made of thick oak planks, which turned 

 upon a wooden axis by means of a horfe 

 drawing it, much in the fame manner as 

 the people do with woad ; * except that 

 here the wheel runs upon planks. Cherry 

 trees flood along the enclofures round corn- 

 fields. 



The corn-fields were excellently fituated, 

 and either fown with wheat or rye. They 

 had no ditches on their fides, but (as is 

 ufual in England) only furrows, drawn at 

 greater or lefTer diflances from each other. 



In one place we obferved a water mill, 

 fo fituated, that when the tide flowed, 

 the water ran into a pond : but when it 

 ebbed, the floodgate was drawn up, and the 

 mill driven by the water, flowing out of 

 the pond. 



About eight o'clock in the morning we 

 arrived at the place where we were to crofs 



the 



• Dr. Linnausy in his Travels through Wejlrogothia, has 

 given a drawing of the machine by which woad is prepared, 

 on the 128th. page. 



