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place in the middle, which time has filled 
up;, but whether they have originally 
been animal or vegetable fubftances, I 
cannot form a conje€ture. Many of the 
houfes are built with a whiteith freeftone, 
and thatched. “The people are reaping 
fine crops of wheat all along; the la- 
bourers feem lazy, and have bad methods 
of reaping; a fervant girl in Cummber- 
land would do much more work in the 
harvet field, than any of thefe labourers 
which I have obferved. Rode isa fall 
farming village, the buildings of which 
are mean, and thatched. Farms, from 
2ol. to rool. a year, and the land be- 
longing to the village moftly in common 
field ; the produce, wheat, barley, peafe, 
and beans. Rent about ros. 6d. peracre. 
The land, in moft of the neighbouring 
parifhes, is alfo in common field; the 
conftant rotation of crops are, firft, fal- 
low; fecond, wheat, or barley; third, 
peafe, beans, or oats. Where common 
fields have been inclofed, the rents are 
generally doubled, which is the beft proof 
of the great advantage of inelofing. In 
common fields, no hay or grafs, for paf- 
ture, can be had, and confequently few 
cows are kept, and them miferably fed on 
the headlands, &c. during the day, and 
are under the neceflity of being confined 
in the night; a very great inconvenience. 
In this and the neighbouring villages, 
“many of the women are lace-workers. In 
farmers’ houfes, the work of the females 
is contined to cookery, fowing, &c. and 
fo far from being ufeful in the harveft 
- field, even in the moft bufy times of the 
feafon, that few of them know how to 
‘milk acow. What a figure would thefe 
girls make in the fervice of a Cumberland 
farmer! Labourers’ wives and children 
emproy themfelves, during the harveft, in 
~“gleaning, and often collect a great deal 
of corn, and formetimes 2s much beans as 
will feed a pig. It would certainly, how- 
ever, be more advantageous, bath to the 
farmer and the labourer, were the wives 
of the latter to reap along with their 
hufbands as long as they could get em- 
ploy, and-afterwards colle& the glean- 
ings of the fields. The property of 
the different owners in all the commen 
fields in thefe counties, hes in long, nar- 
row, and often crocked lands, which are 
feparated by ftakes, ftones, or more ¢om- 
monly by ftripes of grafs land. Refpect- 
ing the manner of managing the wheat 
ja the field after reaping, T noticed all 
along, that they bind it up in {mall 
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heaves, and place them in what they call 
Northamptonfhire.—Exertions of France in making Arms. 
fhocks, ten together, five on’ each fide, 
but without laying two fheaves horizon- 
alty along the tops, as is done in “the 
north, in order to keep the ears from bée- 
ing injured by the wet. The ‘manner of 
plowing and carting here, is nearly fimi- 
lar to the mode followed in all the coun- 
ties I have paffed fince I left Suffolk. ~ 
[To be continited.] 

Por the Montsly Magazine. 
[\HE following Extract, from Mr. 
PrieurR’s Account of the extraor- 
dinary cclleGion of Saltpetre, which 
took place in the fecond and third year 
of the French Republic, gives a wonder- 
_ ful proof of the energetic impulfe which 
pervaded that nation, when in a mainer 
unprepared to refift the formidable force 
in league againft it. | 
“¢ One ftill recolleéts with aftonifhment 
and admiration, the enthufiaftic {pirit of 
every Frenchman, at atime, when their 
country was in the greateft danger; and 
the prodigious efforts which refulted 
from it, towards furnifhing an enormous 
quantity of arms of every kind, and of 
gunpowder, which the nation was much 
in want of—the almoft imftantaneous 
erection of numberlc{s buildings, in all 
parts of the Republic, for making and 
repairing all forts of ~ polifhed arms, 
mutkets, and cannoils of every bore, both 
for the land and fea fervice; as well as 
the incredible quantity of ammunition, 
uteniils, machines, and other neceffaries, 
for the confumption and ufe of more than 
900,000 men, ftationed at one time on 
the frontiers, independent of the national 
guards in the mterior *: in a word, fo 
great a toil, asmay be eafily conceived, 
put in attion an incredible number of 
workmen. 
<< Tt was found neeeffary to employ 
therein, thofe men whole labour was of 
an analogous kind; that isto fay, ‘men 
of different vocations in the rough work 
of wood and metals; or evén fach as 
were acquainted with the more refined 
and finifhed parts. It was neceflary alfo, 
in a manner, to makeapprentices of thofe 
workmen who had been taken from their 

* To give a fullidea of the enormity of 
this fabrication, it will-be within bounds to 
declare, .that,, in. one; month, there were 
delivered from the founderies, $97 brafs, ~ 
452 iron cannon, of different bores; an 
7ooo brafs, and 12. or 13,000 iron Cannon, 
Were mounted fit for fervice, in the fpace of 
one year. 
ufual 
