1798.] 
To the Edtor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR 
DISORDER prevails very fatally 
A in this diftrict among the horned 
cattle, called by the farmers the choak 
felon, for the cure of which fhould a fuc- 
cefstul method of treatment be known to 
any of your correfpondents, the commu- 
nication through the channel of your in- 
telligent publication, would be gratefully 
acknowledged by many, as well as 
Yours, AGRICOLA CORNUBIENSIS, 
OGober 28th 1798. 

TOUR OF ENGLAND. 
(Continued from page 276.) 
Journal of a Tour through almioft every county 
in England, and partof Wales, by Mr.Joun 
Housman, of Corby, near Carlifle; who 
was engaged to make the Tour by a gentle- 
man of diftinétion, for the purpofe of col- 
leéting authentic information relative to 
the ftate of the poor. The Journal com, 
prifes an account of the general appearance 
of the country, of the foil, furface, build- 
ings, &c. with obfervations agricultural, 
commercial, &c. 
ORSET SHIRE is a pleafant, 
healthy country; the furface irre- 
gular, very woody; enjoys a good air, 
and plenty of fine water. The foil moftly 
dry, and contains chalk, marl, flint and 
fome freeftone. Here is alfo a great deal, 
of high ground called downs, which is 
generally in fheep pafture. The breed of 
fheep, as mentioned before, is rather 
fingular, but avery ufeful fort. This 
eounty produces a confiderable quantity 
ef cyder, which this year is in tome in- 
flances, fold at one guinea per hogfhead. I 
alfo obferved feveral vines growing againit 
walls in the open air, and pretty well 
loaden with fruit. Buildings are moftly 
ef brick and tile ; and a great number of 
fine feats and parks adorn and enliven the 
sountry. 
Frome contains about 8000 fouls; it 
is an old town, with dirty narrow ftreets, 
awkwardly feated on the declivity of a 
hill, and much of it built with a fort of 
whitifh freeftone ; it manufactures a great 
deal of fuperfine, and beft broad cloths ; 
but the manufaéturers do not feem to 
have accumulated wealth equally with the 
Yorkfhire manufacturers.—Grafs land 
near the town lets for 3]. per acre, and 
at a diftance 203. to 40s.; arable farms 
14S. to 1$s. per acre. 
O&ober. 22d, went from Frome to 
Trowbridge in Wiltfhire, 9 miles. Near 
Frome the land is mofily in grais, but 
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349 
proceeding farther I met with a good deah 
of wheat land. The foil is ftrong, and 
contains much clay. The road is made 
with broken freeftone, and muft be bak 
in wet weather: buildings are univerfally 
of ftone, and flated with the fame: the 
fields and farms are fmall: the furface is 
rather uneven and woody ; the trees are 
chiefly elm. I obferved a number of 
curious petrified fhells among the ftones 
which are laid on the roads.—Trow- 
bridge is a manufacturing town, contain-~ 
ing about zooo fouls: the inhabitants 
make fuperfine broad-cloth and kerfey- 
mere, a good deal of which work is done 
by machinery, but it is not many years 
fince machines were introduced heres 
they were at firft very much oppoled by 
the labouring manufacturers, who are not 
yet quite reconciled tothem. ‘This town 
is in general pretty well built and cleans 
October 24, Trowbridge to Bradford, 
Wilthhire, three miles. Here feems to be 
great plenty of whitifh freeftone, but 
which does not admit a fine polith: the 
houfes are made with this ftone. The 
foil of this diftrié is tolerably good, but 
the roads dirty. I obferved a farmer 
ploughing with fix oxen in one plough. 
Bradford is a manufacturing town, fome-. 
what fimilar to the two laft defcribed:, it 
ftands on the declivity of a rocky hill, 
and has rather a romantic appearance. 
Many of the houfes are old and the ftreets 
narrow. Farms in the neighbourhood 
are from tool. to 300]. a year. Rent 
of land 18s. to 3l.an acre. Moft part 
of the land is in palture, but wheat, bar~ 
ley, oats, and turnips are cultivated in 2 
{mall degree. A canal from Briftol to- 
wards Newbury, Devizes, &c. is intended. 
to pafs by this town, ‘but is not yet 
finifhed. 
O&tober 25, went from Bradford to 
Bath, Somerfetthire, feven miles. The 
furtace of this diftri& is very unlevel'; the 
foil mofily dry, and not unfertile: rocky 
cliffs appear at a dittance; the fields are 
generally {mall, and ‘often divided by 
{tone walls. he ‘road pretty good: 
banks by the fides of rivers and brook’. 
generally clothed with wood, or planted 
with apple-trees.. T pafled feveral large 
orchards loaden with fruit, and croffed 
the new canal, ‘The city.of Bath prefents 
itfelf at about 1+ mile diftance in a naf 
row valley, andpartly rifine up a rugged 
hill fronting the foutn. The banks on 
each fide of this vale are high and irre- 
gular, and defcend rapidly: they are 
partly clothed with wood, and partly 
naked, where in fome places the rocky 
nf chits 
