460 
of his farmers. The moft furprifing of 
his improvements has been on peat-mofs, 
where land. that was not worth 6d. per 
acre per annum, is now valued at 4os. 
for a termof years. This fhews the very 
great advancement which much of the 
land in this kingdom is capable of. — 
Buildings in the weft and fouth parts of 
this county are generally good ; but many- 
of thofe towards Scotland are moderate, 
and fome of them mere clay huts. The 
country people in Cumberland generally 
manufacture their own linen, ftockings, 
and common woollen qloth ; and the ma- 
nufactory of cottons has lately been in- 
troduced into this county. ‘The city of 
Carlifle is a remarkably clean, and open 
town, notwithftanding the walls and gates 
are ftanding almoft entire: it ftands on a 
very fine fituation, in the pleafanteft and 
moit fertile part of the county ; and near 
the confluence of the rivers Eden and 
Caldew, which half furround it. The 
prefent population of Carlifle is 8716 ; in 
1763 it was 4158: the increafe is chiefly 
owing to the introduétion of manufactures 
of cotton, &c. 
Whitehaven ftands in a {mall creek on 
the weft coaft of this county, furrounded 
with high naked hills, which fhut it up 
-very clofe: the buildings are good, mo- 
dern, and covered with blue flate ; and I 
have feen no maritime towns formed on 
fo regular a plan. ‘The principal trade 
of this place is fending coals to Ireland. 
Coal-mines are opened on every fide of 
the town; and even fome have been dug 
out under it ; over which the ground, a 
few years ago, gave way, and a number 
of houles fhrunk in confequence. White- 
haven, in 1633, confifted of nine or ten 
thatched cottages; in 1663 there were 
450 families; and at prefent the number 
‘of inhabitants are fuppofed to be between 
16 and 17,000. This port, and colleries 
adjacent, belong to the Earl of Lonfdale, 
who has an elegant manfion here. 
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For the Menthly Magazine. 
NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY, 
NUMBER iil. 
1. ZACHARY Munce, Divize. 
EF. this learned critic and divine, I 
have been able to glean fearceiy 
any particulars. It is faid that he was 
at firft bred in an academy with a view to 
the miniftry among thedifenters in Devon- 
fhire, his native county; but that alter- 
Negleéted Riography. 
No. Ill. [July 
ing his fentiments, he was ordained in 
the church of England, and became _ 
mafter of the free grammar fchool at 
Bideford, in that county. About 1734, 
he went to Piymouth, where he was 
chofen minifter of St. Andrew’s church, 
and afterwards obtained a prebend in the 
cathedral of Exeter, from bifhop Wefton, 
to whom, in gratitude, he dedicated a 
volume of admirable fermons. - He was 
alfo the author ofan ** Effay on the Pjalns” 
in which he difplayed great knowledge of 
the Hebrew language and metre. I am 
ignorant of the year when he died. Two 
of his fons attained to confiderable emi- 
nence, the one as a watchmaker, and 
the inventor of a time keeper, and the 
other as a phyfician, and the author of a 
treatife on the ‘* Catarrhous Cough.” 
Particulars of the father and fons would 
be very acceptable. 
2, -WILLIAM BaRRETT, Antiquarian, 
Tus worthy‘and induftrious man was, 
I believe, a native of Briftol, or its neigh- 
bourhood. He was a very refpeétable 
furgeon in that city. As the friend and 
firft patron of the unfortunate Chatterton, 
and as being the author of the ** Hiffory 
of Brijiol? he deferves to have his name 
recorded. Some account of him, there- 
fore, is earneftly requefted for our Maga- 
zine. 
3. SIR JAMEs STONEHOUSE, M.D. 
. Divine. 
Tis venerable and excellent ecclefi- 
aftic was bred at St. John’s College, 
Oxford, of which he was gentleman-coms 
moner, being of an ancient family in 
Berkfhire. He took his doétor’s degree 
in phyfic at that univerfity, and after- 
wards fettled at Northampton, and was 
the phyfician to'the infirmary there. At 
that place he formed a clole friendfhip 
with Dr. Doddridge, Mr. James Henry, 
Dr. Richard Grey, and other pious and 
learned men, in confequence of which he 
acquired a difpofition to religion which 
led him at lait to enter into the priefthood 
of the church of England. At Nor- 
thampton, he loft his firft wife, a very 
exemplary woman, of whom there is a 
fine character in the firft volume of Mr. 
Hervey’s Meditations. He attended the 
Jaftmentioned author in hisdying moments, 
and contributed confiderably to his Life 
and Letters which were focn after pub- 
lithed- by Dr, Birch. Nor was it long 
before he complied with the advice of Mr, 
Hervey, and entered into orders. Dig- 
nities he might have had in abundance, 
but 
