‘ 
Mr. M., °° takes pa teat ia both thefe particulars; and its 
breed are in bothn what cattle ought to be. 
they are rather Bao the defirable point for the heavier 
works of hufbandry ; but-they make up for this deficiency, 
in exertion and agility’; 3 and are, beyond comparifon, the beft 
een. } 
3 Yearing for t 
graziers having long been the main object of, the farmers of 
this c ahprteae ae as grazing cattle, individuals in every 
nty fhew t 
time immemor 
plough-team of this county ; fometimes with horfes before 
them, but more generally alone. aged oxen, or fix 
im 
prev variety of fifh which aooen in ‘its rivers and o 
oafts; and, in addition to the home confumption, afford a 
ns conliderable “upply to the Bath and London marketa. 
In the rivers Tamar a avy, great numbera of falmon are 
annually taken, producing alae fums to the aa . 
the efiates which have the of fifhing. The falm 
fifhery on the Tavy is ey to the lands, of Buckland, 
place, the {cat of the Drake family, by whole anceftor, the 
celebrated c: sage visa ae the ines was ae ed. The 
weir oe ng to ae is a work of confiderable mags 
nitu It conti ftts of a ftro eee about ic feet high, 
throws acrofs the river in a pees t. where two projeCting rocks 
ferve as butireffes to the per which is built arch-wife to 
refit the preffure and force of the waters in times of flood, 
sie Lee col'eét from ee flopes of the Dartmoor hills, 
wa with extraordinary capenigiiy: The fith. 
feafon commences in the.Tavy about the middle ‘or 
latter end of February, (but on the Tamar not till feveral 
weeks later,) ss clofes in cr or November, when the 
weir is thrown open water is clear, many fal. 
m Beri with the esi i neces , who throw this 
papa en great dexterity, ‘The falmon of the Tamar and 
Tavy are_of ai F quality to thafe taken in many other 
rivers in Devo ofe of the Exe are confidered the 
motft delicate, and & fineft fla In the river Dart t they 
are caught in great fe ada: their ufual w weight, is from 
fix " fourteen ‘eounds each ; though they. are. frequently 
taken of the weight of twen nty pounds or upwards 
that afcend the 
fhots, from their rapid motes een the ‘water, 
river Otter is remarkable for its ‘trout, and. falmon; :peal ; the 
former having a peculiarly rich flavour, and. the; ‘latter being 
very larg ‘ e plaife of the Devonshire rivers 
are efteemed particularly delicious; more. fg, pera S,:,thay. Ww, 
thofe of ether part of the world.. ‘torpedo, or 
electric ray, has oe been caught at Torbay, and 
fometimes in the 
he eel rene of Devonfhize are various 
and numerous}; and from the eas intermixture of the 
trata in different, parts o unty, it is confidered that 
carthquakes or volcanoes have. ae here at fome remote 
periods. 
the ina con ae - oe every de- 
a in different p Ne: the, count y quarries 
ned, to aca it for the a of agricul 
ture, Buldine and ornament., In the eaftern part of Devon 
it approaches to the nature “of f alk, and, in general, ig 
; g 
“county. 
the mi inerals. of the Se genus, ‘limettto ae 
d 
pEvOnse ne : 
; and when polifhed; ardly par tk 
ie In the Her of South Madion are many quarries. 
of black marble, variegated with fmall ftreaks of whitey - 
which t oe a fine polifh, but is moftly ge nt into limes + 
obtained in various parts of the on 
not in panicalar abundance ; 
e lime-ftone. 
r- 
i} 
ae in great plenty, and of feveral varieties, both as 
to fhape and colour: a f{pecimen of ftellated va has: been 
found a Oxton, near Haldo 
Argillaceous fubftances abound i in almoft every part, of iby 
In the vale of King’s-Teignton, pipe and pottest 
cured in great quantities; and ten or twelve thous 
ons are annually fent Sia the port of ‘Teignmouth, 
ly the potteries of London, Liverpool, and other. 
parts. Schiftus s Is common to ie the whole county, and 
confifts of a great aye of laming, differing in thicknefs, 
from three feet to half an inc 
In the licous nen are quartz hare which have been 
found i rious parts of Devonfhire, but generally 7 
fall On Dea. they ae bean fometimes'm 
in the fiflures of the granite: they have a!fo been difeotered 
n abundance in the red foil, or rock, at Rougemont caftle ; 
afd near Samford- -Spinney, in great plenty : iota cate 
form is the hexagonal prifm, a nB with t mids. 
Flints exift in at abundan 
mountainous ‘tra of Haldo 
clay is pro 
{and to 
“® 
One 
’ Phe principal kinds of 
Le are dug in the parifhes of Salcombe, Byanfcombe, 
” Varieties of lava, here called iron- fone, _ fone,. and 
bafalt, are found in different parts o co 
ftriking,refemblance to the Derbythive tad: nae 
warateie in the greateft plenty in the vicinity of Exeter s 
the entire roc on which the caftle flands has been cone 
fidered as volea 
Granite, called. op moor-ftone, is, as in Comvwall: found 
in var ious places, but particularly in Dattmoor, where 
Tes 
Spe 
ceedingly beautiful when ail ml n expofure.to the 
atmofphere, it acquires folidity ; Bie when dirk raifed, may 
be de with little difficulty 
of remarkable of the 3 in Aeweable Gabiances dif- 
covered i in Devonthirg i 18 the Bovey coal, the orgie of which 
ogi t 
is, obtained: in the extenfive flat called Boy Heathfield, 
ich appears,to, have been formerly covered by. the ti le, 
ae is fuppofed to be lo 
ower sa the level of the fea. The 
nature and peculiar r properties of. this a are fully de- 
fcribed by Mr, Polwhele €, in in Hiftor evonthire, 
.Pyrites is found in various parts of the county, and fre» 
quently appears in globular bal!s of different fizes. eat 
efchiftus, near 
a 
mall. ‘quaitities, Lhe 
tin -works were anciently nu- 
merous and valuable, 
& 
hut have in a great meafure - been 
_abandgned 5 
