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tend over a high dreary common, covered | 
with heath. Tre foil of this diftrict is 
various ¢ wichin two or three miles of 
Pinritu, 1: is a fertile loam, pretty 
warm and low; towards SHaAP, rather 
lieavy, wet. and cola, but tolerably pro- 
ductive, particularly m grafs; about OR- 
TON, it is rather more. warm and dry. 
The general appearance is naked. and is 
rendered fill more fo by tione walls being 
made inftead of quick fences. The fields 
and farms are fmall, and moftly occupied 
by the proprietor®. ‘ihe furface of this 
 diftrict, though very. uneven, is more 
level than the neighbouring country. 
Limeftone abounds; a fpecies of bad 
_coak is alfo found, but only ufed in burn- 
ing lime. Coai for fuc! ischiefly brought 
from STAINMO2E, which ts at a con- 
fiderable diftance. There is a general 
want of trees, though, trom the it-ture 
ef fome near SHAP, it is evident that 
‘wood might fucceed, notwihitanding the 
cold and moift na ure of the climate. It 
fhould, however, be planted in clumps, 
or regular plantations ; and. for warmth, 
be intermixed with Scotch fir; a precau- 
tion which never ought to be neglected 
in cold or expofed fituations. 
The buildings are good, veing of white 
freeftone, or limeftone, ana covered with- 
in with the blue flare for which Weft- 
moreland is fo famous. Farm-houtes, 
&c. are generally collected into yilages, 
and, in confequence, their fields are ge- 
nerally at an inconvenient diftance. 
Agriculture and mode of farming 
mearly the jaime as in the ciftrict I paffed 
through yefterday. A third horfe is, 
however, on fome occafions, yoked to the 
plough. Moft of the land is in grafs ; 
the farmers fuppoling the foil and cli- 
mate better adapted to the production of 
grafs than corn. They, unfortunately, 
are {till prejudiced with the notion, that 
natural herbage, or the fpontaneous 
growth of the heilds, is preferable to 
Glovers. ov other artificial graffes ; the 
confequence of which is obvious. OR- 
TON is a very imall imarket town, inha- 
bited by farmers, «vy thout any improve- 
ment in buildings, and firuated in a wild 
country. Mr. Burn, author of the 
book, well known by the name of 
6¢ Brcn’s Juftice,” has a feat here, and 
is now making confiderable tmprove- 
ments in his adjoining eftate, by plant- 
ing and tilling barren moors. The 
cattle are of the long-horned breeds, and 
good of the kind; the fheep are of the 
beath or black-faced fort, The imple. 
Agricultural and Commercial Tour of England. 
called Kendal cottons, &c. 
863 
ments of hufbandry are fimple, and to- 
lerabiy ufetul. 
April 2. Travelled to day from Or- 
TON to KENDAL. in Weftmoreland, 16 
miles.—The road winds. round high 
Mountains, and thereby rapid afcentrs or 
declivities are avoided; trom the eafy 
acqui''ticn of materials, it is kepe in 
good repair : indeed, all the Weltmore- 
land roads are remarxkable for their ex- 
cellent condition The foil, in general, 
is light, and gravelly, particularly to- 
wards K-NDAL, and produces good 
Grais, potatoes, oats, and fome barley. 
Scarcely any attempts have been made 
to raife wheat or rye. A mountainous 
common intervenes for about fix miles, 
confifting chiefly of fine green hills, de. 
paftured with the black-faced, coarfe- 
wool breed of fheep; the fituation is 
worthy of better tenants. The furface 
of the country is extremely uneven ; the 
appearance various. Near Orton, it is 
rather bare, barren. and wild; a litcle 
farther it is rocky and romantic, and the 
road ieads along the fide of a hill, over- 
looking a deep narrow valley below, in 
which a brook meanders through a few 
firag sling {majl farms ; the whole affum- 
ing the appearance of a map on a large 
fcale. “Ihe fields, in this -diftriét, are 
univerfally divided by ftone walls. To. 
wards KenpDaAia few finall woods, fome 
beautiful hedge-rows of thorn, and the 
{mall fertile nelds, give the country a 
more civilized appearance. The cattle 
are of the long-horned fort, and good in 
cheir kind ; the horfes are middle-fized, 
faree horfes are generally yoked to a 
plough, in a liné. and neceffarily res 
re a driver; a very unprofitable mode 
and by no means neceflary. Farms and 
buildings continue asin the: diftriét laft 
decribed. “Che rocks, which prefent 
themfelves fo frequently in thefe parts, 
are hard, of a blue colour, and locally 
called Rag. Limeftone abounds near 
KENDAL; but no coal is found in this 
neighbourhood. Blue flate is procured 
at no great. diftance north of the road. 
The land 1s here chiefly applied to the 
purpofe of dairying. KENDAL contains 
about 8coo inhabitants, who are chiefly 
employed in manufaéturing ftockings, 
linfeys, flannels, a coarfe woollen cloth 
The town, 
which is fituated: on the declivity of a 
hill, with a fouthern afpeé, is very well 
built of white ftone, and covered with 
blue flate ; but the ftreets are rather too 
naxkows it is fuxcounded with high 
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