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which Inow condemn. I hope; Mr. Edi- 
tor, that you will infert this; though I 
am con{fcious of having treipaficd upon 
the extent of your work, it may he pro- 
per for your own juitification; for, as” 
you have always fhewn a decided partia- 
lity for the interefts of commerce, you 
muf be anxious to prove, that, by fo do- 
ing, you have not iupported a fyftem of 
fraud, robbery, and peculation. 
Feb. eae 1793. MERCATOR. 
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FOUR OF ENGLAND. 
(Continued from page 2.77.) 
Journal of a Tour through almoft every county 
in England, and part of Wales, by Mr.foun 
HowusMAN, of Corby, near Carlifie; who 
was efeancd to make the Tour by a gentle- 
man of diftin€tion, fer the purpofe of col- 
leGing authentic information relative to 
the ftate of the poor. The Journal com- 
prifes an account of the general appearance 
ofthe country, of the foil, furface, build- 
ings, &c. with obfervations agricultural, 
commercial, &c. 
TOW, the feat of the Marquis of 
Buckingham, is about three miles 
from this place : the houfe, the very fine 
and extenfive park, gardens, pleafure- 
grounds, &c. are far beyond my powers 
of deicription, nor do fuch deicriptions 
come immediately under the concife plan 
er nature of my notes; thefe places have 
been fully and repeatedly defcribed by 
able writers, who fearcely condefcended 
to notice the humble fubje&ts of my prin- 
cipal attention. Refpedting Stow, fuffice 
it to fay, that, taken altegether, it is 
generally allowed to be one of the fineft 
feats in the prior 
September 8. J left Buckingham and 
went to Winflow, in Buckinghamhhire, 
fix miles. The foil frong, and produces 
much wheat, oats, and beans. In this 
diftrict L pafied feveral parifhes where the 
fields are open, and the farmers mowing 
beans and oats. Where the land is in- 
clofed, it is moftly in pafturage. Roads 
are made with whitish freeftone, mixed 
with flinty gravel; the country is open, 
though enclofures contain a great number 
oi trees, poneipallye elm ; 5 thee face ge- 
nerally level. Winflow isa {mall plea- 
Gare fituated market-town, containing 
s100 inhabitants; many of the lower 
claiies ef avomen are lace-makers. The 
adjacent country. is level, and abounds 
with game, par ticularly hares, which, it 
is faid, the lord of the manor protects 
with an jron hand. 
September 9. Went from Winflow to 
Lerghton Buzzard, in Bedfordthire, nine 
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Mr. Hoiif man’ s Tour continued. 
miles. The ftrong clayey foil continues; 
part of the country is in open fields, and 
part of it inclofed; the latter is imottly 
in grafs, and fome of the paltures Seem to - 
have lain fo long, that much of the fur- 
face is covered with ant-hills, and, con- 
fequently, the produce muft be diminith- 
ed. The preduce of the arable lands are 
middling crops of wheat, beans, barley, 
and oats. The furface is rather i irregu~ 
lar, but the — of the country” ig 
pleafing enough; and, towards Leighton, 
the beautiful fields, furrounded with - 
-ftately timber trees, and fine verdant 
meadows, are truly delightful.- The peo- 
ple buty in getting m ‘their wheat and 
barley, and mowing beans. Small theep 
-are herded in fiocks upon the ftubbles and 
in the lanes. Leighton Buzzard isa pretty 
market-town, brick built, but the freets 
are moftly unpaved: it is. furrounded 
with a pleafant country, and feveral open 
fields. “Fhe manufadéure of lace conti-_ 
nues. 
Buckinghamfhire is a fmall county: it 
feems in general to have a ftrong loamy 
foil, very faitable either for corm or grafs, 
but very injudicioufly managed. The 
great quantity of common field indeed 
produces wheat, beans, barley, and oats, 
in as large quantities as could be ex- 
pected from perpetual tillage; but, were 
the whole country inclofed, “and a reguiar 
fytem of hufbandry to take place, by the 
old paitures being brought into a proper 
fucceffion of gra{fs and corn, and the now 
corn fields put in the fame rotation, I am 
confident the produce would be very con- 
fiderably more. 
September 10. Went from Ecistion 
Buzzard to Dunttable, in Bedfordthire, 
fix miles. A bye-road, which leads over 
common, or open fields, almoit all the 
way, in which beans are a principal crop. 
Part of this diftri&t is quite level, very 
fertile and beautiful; a chalk foil com- 
mences here, and is, in fome places, with< 
in the reach of the plough. The hills 
about Dunftable are feen at a great dif. 
tance; they are high protuberances of 
chalk, and covered enh a green fward of- 
poor grafs, About two or three miles 
from Dunftable the great north road ap- 
pears rifing up a hill towards the town, 
which is cut pretty deep, to make the 
afcent mere eafy; the fubftance exca- 
vated, is pure chalk, as white as fnow, 
and thrown up ina long, high, irregular. 
ridge. This feemingly wonderful ob- 
ject, which, had it “been in winter, E 
fhould have taken for a large wreath of 
fnow, excited my curiofity tor fome miles, 
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