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Impregmate with the rains and dews of heaven, 
“Is barren ftill and ffubborn to the plough, 
Emblem our thanklefs hearts ; nor of our God 
Forgetful, be as is the werthlefs vine, 
"Thar in due feafon brings not forth its fruits. 
Thinkeft thou, that God created man alone 
To wander o’cr the would and ocean waite, 
Ox for the blafing thunderbolt of war? 
Vas this his being’s end? Oh! how he errs, 
Who of his godlike nature and his God 
Thus poorly, balely, blafphemoifly deems ! 
For Higher ations, and for loftier ends, 
Our beiter part, the deathlefs and divine, 
Was form’d. ~ The fire that animates my breaft 
May not be quench’d, and when that breaft is 
cold, 
The unextinguifhable fire fhall burn 
With brighter fplendor.: till that hour arrive, 
Obedient to my better part, my friend, 
Be it my lot to live, and thro’ the world, 
Carelefs of human praife, pafs quietly. 
The Ealtern defpot, he whove filver towers 
Shot batk a rival radiance to the fun, 
He was too poor for fin’s extravagance 5 
But Virtue, like the air ard light of Heaven, 
To all acceffible, at every heart 
Intreats admittance., Wretched fool is he 
Who, through the perils of the earth and 
waves, : ‘ 
Toils on for wealth! A little peaccful home 
Rounds all my wants and withes, add to this 
My book and friend, and this is happinefs. 
Qaie a e 

TOUR OF ENGLAND, 
z8 (CONTINUED.) 
Journal of a Tour through almoft every county 
in England, and part of Wales, by Mr, Joun 
Houseman, of Corby, near Carlifle, who 
was engaged to make the Tour by a gentle~ 
man of difiinétion, fur the purpofe of col- 
leting authentic information relative to 
the ftate of the poor. This Journal com- 
prifes an ac ount of the general appearance 
of the country, of the toil, furface, build- 
ings, &c. with Obfervations agricultural, 
commercial, 8c. 
apne very extenfive fens with which 
the county of LiNcoLN abounds, 
appear to have been tormerly under the 
dominion of Neptune, but the fea ap- 
pears to have receded) for a long feries of . 
centuries. gia 
Thefe fens are exceedingly ufefu) in 
breeding geefe, of which great numbers 
are annually fent in droves to different 
parts of the kingdom; they alfo form 
excellent nurferies for different forts of 
aquatic wild fowl. In many parts of 
Lincolnfhire, the proprietors are, how- 
ever, draining thefe extenfive bogs, and 
converting them into meadow and 
pafture ground. They cffcét this by 
large open drains; the main drains, 
which are. very wide and deep, run in 
direét lines feveral miles towards the 
Tour of England.—Swinefhead.... Long Sutton. 
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fea, and ferve for canals. In places 
where the fen is too low for draining by 
that method, the water is raifed by ma- 
chines, which, at a diftence, have the ap. 
pearance of windmills. 
The roads’ are very {pacious, and are 
made of fand; fcarcely a pebble being 
to be feey in this dittriét. Swings- 
HEAD, where I arrived this day, is a 
{mall, but pretty market-town. The 
whole parith does not fupport above 
15¢0 or 1600 inhabitants, and they are 
chiefly farmers. In this neighbourhocd, 
much of the ground is apphed to the 
production of wheat, and other grain. 
The crops, IT am told, are . generally 
good ; the wages cf labour, in harveft,. 
are very high, being from 3s. to ros. per 
cay, according to the feafon, and other 
circumttances. Lhe air is foggy and un- 
healthy ; agues, pimpled faces, &c. are 
very prevalent, put not fo much as fur- 
merly, when the neighbouring fens were 
all undrained. 
June 14, I left. SwINesHEAD, and 
proceeded to LONG SUTTON, in Lin- 
colnfhire (by way of Golberton and Hol- 
beach) 25 miles.—The furtace is quire 
level; the foil, a fort of marfh; the fields 
moftly divided by ditches, in which reeds, 
grow in abundance ; a few are feparated 
with hedges of earth, and planted with 
thorn. Loads (provincially termed ram- 
pers) are entirely made of fand, na ftone 
being to be found. The buildings, in 
eeneral, are better than thofe 1 have 
lately {een the churches, in particular, 
are hne, although the parifhes are finall. 
This is an open, flat, and unhealthy 
country; no {prings to be met with, je 
that the inhabitants are under the necef- 
firy of ufing water from the ftinking 
ditches, and wher filthy refervoirs; a 
circumftancé which cannot fail to be fol- 
lowed by a train of difagreeable confe- 
quences. ‘The foil appears to be very 
productive in wheat and grafs—farms are 
rather {mall, and low-rented. 
LonG SuTTon is a fmall market. 
town, as are GOSBERTON and Hot- 
BEACH, but no manufaétory is carried 
on in them. 
The county of Lincoun, confidered 
altogether, is perfectly rural, the inha- 
bitants being principally farmers.. The 
foil is fertile, withlow rents. Vaft num- 
bers of fheep and cattle are bred and fed 
in it, (particularly the former. The 
general appearance of the country is 
very pleafant, andthe air is very falu- 
brious. Among #ts inconveniences may 
be confidered the great diftance .from 
coals, and the wanr of pure water. In 
Te! | yepard 


