HEREFORDSHIRE. 
_-@ mixture of marle and clay, containing a large proportion of 
calcareous earth. The fubltrata are moftly lime-ftone of 
sdifferent qualities ; in fome- parts, particularly near Snod- 
Aill-caille, it affumes the properties of marble, and becomes 
beautifully variegated with red and white veins. ‘Toward 
“the weitern borders the foil is cold and retentive of moifture 5 
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yet this, though a favourite objeét of its hufbandry and 
cgmmierce, is by no means the only one :. cattle, fheep, {wine, 
taly ;, and Philips, in his poem on cyder, recommends the 
winds, and therefore a wefterly expofure, are particu. 
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i unfavourable to the fruit-trees of Herefordthire : thefe 
difguits of the Black. Mountain.’?? The period at which 
the cultivation of orchards became a pre-eminent branch of 
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; ‘ain became, 12a manner, one entire ore 
* a particular defcription of the various kinds of 
ated in this county, fee Marthall’s Obfervations 
Om the agepent of eas and Fruit Liguor in Here- 
_ “Fordihire,” annexed to his fecond volume of «The 
- ‘Economy Pag ge Karras — 
_ _ The Herefordthire cattle are regarded, by the beft in- 
formed judges, as the molt fuperior breed in the kingdom, 
he other breeds, which. nearly refemble them, are thafe of 
aa and Suffex, and of the V ale of Pickering in, 
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lour is a_reddifh-brown, with white and: bald faces, The 
rearing of oxen for agricultural purpofes isa very general 
bright and filky nature of the coating. The prevailing co» 
labours of the harveft. The breed of flicep in this county: 
is almoft equally as celebrated as that of its-cattle : the name: 
by which they are diftinguifhed is the Ryeland; from a difi 
trict in the fouthern part of the county, where the mott fupe- 
rior varieties are fed, 
hops of this county are of two kinds, white and :ed; but 
each of thefe has feveral varieties: the white hops are the 
molt delicate, and have the preference with the buyers; 
though the red kinds are more hardy, and impart a {tronger 
quality in brewing. 
receives the Pinfley near Leominfter ; and afterwards inclin~ 
ing to the fouth, is increafed by the waters of the Arro nh 
andthe Frome. Soon after its junétion with the laters. = 
falls into the Wye, near Mordisford. The Munnow rifes om 
Herefordfhire fide of the Hatterell mountains, pai e™ 
courfe through the county is increafed by the flreams — 
quits the former at Llanrothal, and. flowing to Bae 
mouth, is received by the Wye immediately below that wre . 
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