NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 
pe be hag wolds, is almoft — warm as the more fouthern 
cattle of all kinds. 
en erally known among trade we informs us, 
that thele hops are much fence than the Kentith, “ going 
almoft as far again in pale 3” but th hofe who are eccahonied to 
the lattér, objet to their flavour as r rank ; a ola 
which of courfe operate againft them in the m 
Scrooby, an pots in the northern diftriGt, "weld, 
fometimes called ~ dyers’ weed, has sniale ee long an 
a is commonly f e barley 
to an acre ; ae is i alled up from 
among the clover de ae following, about the time when 
‘the latter is cone into bloo 
ew cattle are bred in this county, spel g on the banks 
e 
of the Soar, where a num f cows are reared for th 
airy. eep, however, are br: . eat numbers, in al- 
moft every diftri T are chiefly the old foreft kind, 
e 
— a dto be great improvements both on the wool and 
» few farmers now rear this fpectes of fheep un- 
ate of Property, Jc.—Tenures here, as in moft other 
counties, are in all the i aed of freehold, copyhold, and 
e 
the foil are moftly tenants ak will; and as their farms, in 
Tany in inftances, havecontinued in one family for feveral gene- 
pe they feel a fort of hereditary fecurity, that prompts 
7 a courfe of improvement as if they were 
a cae r than ab 
efpecially in ei clay diftrigt, being as low as 20/. e 
largeft farms are on the poor fore lands, which ee been 
lately brought into a ftate of cultivation. Rents are uni- 
verfally paid in eal : ue only fome few boons, as 
hey are provincially Oo 
ae carriage eres (chiefly of gor for the land], 
lands which are either now, or have been yes church 
cad are entirely tithe free. Eftates vary in extent from 
12,000/, a-year downwards to the {mallet amount, e 
ae as is ufual in moft counties, are left to the care of 
flewards ; but many confiderable = _ as inferior yeomer 
oceupy and farm their own proper 
.—In a mineralogical eftimate, Nottingham bhire 
has jodie particularly worthy of attention. No metals 
of ark cago have hitherto been difcovered within its 
boun oal and lime-ftone, however, are tolerably 
abundant, as well as marle and free-ftone. he coal 
and lime-ftone ftrata lie on the weiter f the county. 
Mr. Lowe indeed faye, that he is ignorant of any marle-pit 
pened wi ounty, but that at Bank-wood in the 
Trent vie 
' The rivers which either take their rife i in Not- 
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county in the vicinity of Phumpton with a bold and r a 
current, and croffing it in a north-eafterly direction by Not- 
tingham and Newark, where its ftream {weeps decidedly to 
the north, reaches Clifton, and becomes the boundary be- 
tween this county se that of Lincoln, for a diftance of 
more than twenty m is river is navigable for large 
veffels as high as Gainfborough, eight miles above We 
Stockwich, at which village it leaves Nottinghamfhire ; and 
saci {mall craft of thirty or forty tons burden may 
The Erwath 
ar, which flo 
eae) from that of Leicetfter. nnand the Meaden, 
niting their currents near Elkefley, after receiving feveral 
foals Geum, form the Idle, which runs in a northerly 
dire&tien 
