198 
By laudable exertion, and, we may 
hope, by improvement in knowledge and 
melioration of public temper, cock- 
throwing is, I believe, nearly extinét. 
It were to be wifhed that Jx-baiting, 
though greatly diminifhed, were as much 
fo: and that the horrid pra€tice of cock- 
fighting, which is generally gambling 
complicated with horrid barbarity, were. 
not fuffered to exift, to the fcandal of 
every rational and feeling mind. 
Two good bills pafed (I know not 
how far executed*) to reftrain the 
wanton, and often fatal, ferocity of 
drovers, 14 Geo. III, c. 87, 21 Geo. III, 
cs 67, or of other perfons, not being 
drovers, pelting cattle when driving 
through London, or fetting dogs at them. 
The circumftances of the times have 
made, and, I believe,-will continue, me 
an abfentee from London; but I do well . 
remember this evil had arifen to a moft 
hocking and perilous height, and I 
think, fix years back, it feemed to have 
been confiderably diminifthed. 
By the 4th fect. of the laft-mentioned 
act, the Coury of ALDERMEN 1s ein- 
powered to make regulations for all 
perfons driving catile in London or Wett- 
minfter, or wxhin the liberties or the 
E,lls of Mortality. : 
Sir Cuargtes WHITWORTH, I be- 
lieve, brought in this bill. He had alfo, 
with laudable, though unavailing, affidu- 
ity, endeavoured to prevent the miferable 
and dangerous neceility of driving cattle 
*hrough London at all. 
-J remain, with great eftcem, 
Your obliged corref{pondent, 
Carex. LorrrT. 
frofton, September 15, 1797. 
it would bea fatisfaeétion to learn, in 
rour next, whether the late comet, con-- 
9 > 
eerning which you fo liberally adopted 
my communications, has been any where 
fince the 25th of Auguf, at midnight ? 
Tt was about 4° above a ophiuchi, near 
an unnamed ftar, and but barely, with 
great difficulty, to be difcerned. Its lat 
pofition would not have been ill-defcribed 
from Gvip: : 
Qui medius nixique genu anguemque tenentis. 
Be fo good to correét an erratum (p. 
102) by reading 4° inftead of 403; and, 
alfo, to read BouVARD, p. 140. 
_ Your Magazine has friends and corre- 
fpondents in London, the great refervoir 
of affronomical, and all other information, 

- * See Williams’s Digeft of Statute Law, 
Ssgond Edition, London, 1783, p. 379: 
Comet... Lour of England.—Yarmouth. 
[ Sept. 
who-are-able to give. generally the ear- 
lieft_and moft accurate intelligence of 
fuch phenomena. Give me leave to re- 
mark, that though fuitable to every re- 
fpectable periodical publication, fuch*in- 
telligence feems to fal] peculiarly within 
the defign of youy’s. At the fame time, 
a fhort intimation in the Newspa- 
PERS, when acomet is firit feen, would 
generally be agreeable. to moft readers, 
and to many might be materially ufeful. 
When War creates fuch interruption. 
in the progrefs of the humanizing and 
elevated {ciences, it is doubly requifite to 
cherifh every ray of thefe which can be, 
caught and diffufed. wd thy 
see 
° FOUR OF. ENGLAND, 
(CONTINUED.) 
Journal of a Tour through almoft every county 
in England, and part of Wales, by Mr. Jonn 
Housman, of Corby, near Carlifle, whe. 
was engaved to make the Tour by a gentle- 
man of diftinétion, for the purpofe of col- 
lecting authentic information relative to’ 
the ftate of the poor. This Journal com- 
prifes an account of the general appearance. 
of the country, of the foil, furface, build- 
ings, &c. with Obfervations agricultural, 
commercial, &c, 
UNE 26; I left Norwteny, -pro- 
J ceeded towards Y ARMOUTH, and the 
fame day reached HATHERSCOE, in 
‘Norfolk, 15 miles.—-The foil is various, 
but contains a pretty large proportion of 
{and and flinty gravel; clay and loam 
appear occafionally. The furface is ge- 
nerally level, and many trees are feen 
growing on hedge rows, which gives the 
country a woody appearance; fome of* 
the farms are very large; although, in 
general, they are middle-fized. Domef- 
tic animals are much as before defcribed< 
T did not take the dire€t Yarmouth road, | 
but went by the way of Frammingham- 
hal! and Loddon. The former is the 
feat of Mr. Rrcsy, and is a fmall, but 
neat, country refidence, diftant a few 
miles from Norwich. Here EL was en= 
tertained in the kindeft manner by Mr. 
Beavor, fon-in-law of Mr. Riecgy, 
anda nephew of Sir THomas Bea- 
vor’s. Mr. Ricspy is making confi- 
derable improvements in his eflate, gar 
dens, and pleafure-grounds. In his cu- 
rious and extenfive colle&tion of plants 
and trees, I noticed. a remarkably fine 
willow (the proper name of which has 
efcaped my memory) which is only fix 
years old, and which, at the. height of 
five feet from the ground, meafures. 27 
inches .and a half in girth. In thefe 
gardens a tall gazeko is erected, on the 
fummit 
