1801.] 
married fifty-four years, and were interred 
together in the fame grave. 
Aged 78, Mr. T. Emerfon, of New-houfe, 
Weardale. 
Mr. J. Englith, farmer, of Smalwell 5 he 
was accidentally killed bya ftroke froma horfe 
which he was drefling. 
Mr. R. Urpeth, of Whickham he dropped 
down while Joading a cart with hay, and 
expired immediately. 
P. Darling, efq. of Bogan-green, Juftice of 
Peace for the County of Berwick. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND, 
A correfpondent of the Carlifle Journal, 
after noticing the prejudices of moft farmers, 
in favour of old eftablifhed fyftems of huf- 
bandry, and their averfion to the trying any 
new ichemes, proceeds to obferve that there 
are different plants, the culture of which is 
found very profitable in many of the fouthern 
counties, but ‘which, it is generally fup- 
pofed, ‘would not fucceed well in the north- 
ern counties—among thefe, he fays the 
wetch feems not to have had due notice in thefe 
counties. According to this correfpondent, 
the winter vetch will anfwer the moft fan- 
guine expectation, if properly cultivated and 
fown in apretty good foil; a ftriking inftance 
of which he points out in a field on the bor- 
der of the river Petterill, near Newbiggin- 
hall. The luxuriance and weight of the 
crop is very aftonifhing, at leaft, to a 
Cumberland farmer. The foil is a deep 
fandy loam. It was plowed out of lea, in 
1800, and fown with potatoe-oats. After 
harveft, the land was again plowed three 
times, and, about the beginning of October, 
was fown with the vetches, and well har- 
rowed and fhould alfo have been rolled, but, 
in this inftance, it was neglected. The 
plants flourifhed well all the winter, and about 
the latter end of April, the Rev, Myx. 
B———., by whofe mode of culture this 
valuable crop was produced, began to cut the 
vetches, for the purpofe of feeding his horfes 
in the ftable. This he has continued to do 
ever fince, with good effect, and that part 
where the vetches were firft cut, is again 
ready for the fcythe. In fhort, the very 
large quantity which an acre of land, even 
in this county, ‘is capable of producing of 
this excellent vegetable, the earlinefs in the 
fpring, and latenefs in the fummer, when it 
is in ufe, the nutritioufnefs of the food, as 
well as the large quantity of manure 
which it produces, areconfiderations, which, 
in the opinion of this correfpondent, ought 
to induce every farmer, at leait, to try the ex- 
periment. i 
The Mufeum at Kefwick, of which Mr. 
Peter Croffthwaite is proprietor and founder, 
is vifited by numerous parties of the nobility, 
gentry and others, and is ftill rapidly advanc- 
ing in its ufefulnefs and celebrity. He has 
lately published another edition ot his maps of 
the lakes, and has’ likéwile received a large 
Cumberland and Weftmorland. 
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donation of very great curiofities from the 
eaftern world and other foreign chimes 3 alfa, 
a fine, healthy, ring-tailed eagle from the 
north, and fifteen new tunes for his cele- 
brated organ, four of which ‘are of his own 
compofing. Mr. Crofithwaite claims the 
merit of having firft invented, in the year 
1768, the cork boat or life-boat, the model’ 
and papers relating to which, intended for the’ - 
infpection of the Lords of the Admiralty, 
were loft or miflaidin London. In May 1800, 
he publifhed:in the Cumberland papers and 
in the Star, an advertifement, which fet forth’ 
forty two capital inventions and difcoveries, 
made by him, moftly aimed for the general: . 
good. He has, fince its appearance, made 
two other difcoveries, one of which is a co- 
pious fpring of moft extraordinary water,’ 
more pure than the celebrated medical fprings | 
of Malvern Hills, in Worcefterfhire, in the 
‘ proportion of at leaft four to one 3 and it has. 
been agreed by gentlemen of the faculty, that’ 
it is owing to their purity alone, that the | 
Malvern waters cure the fcurvy, fcrophula, | 
cancers, putrid and feetid ulcers, with other’ 
difeafes. Mr. Crofithwaite has tried this 
Kefwick water upon four patients. It cured’ 
the firft of the gravel and the ftone, in a. 
little time ; the other three, who were alfo 
much afflifted with the fame diforder, have 
but very lately begun its ufe and were confi- 
derably better ina fewdays,, Water, impreg- 
nated with particles of ftone and earth, and 
joined with acid and glutinous fubftances in 
the body, form the gravel and the ftone, and 
plug up the minute veffels and ftrainers of the * 
human frame, efpecially where the circulation _ 
is languid,and exercife Is neglected: --the pureit 
water, joined with exercife,it is now univerfal- 
ly admitted, will diflolve the graveland flone © 
and the plugs too, and thus reftore the natu- . 
ral circulation of the conftitution, and if a~ 
due regard be paid tothe ufe of this water aad _ 
the non-naturals, Mr. Croflthwaite is of epi- ° 
nion, that it bids fair to fubdue even the gout 
itfelf. Mr Croffthwaite exhibits a {pecimen — 
of this water and fome trophies of its healing ° 
power, in his Mufeum ; he reprefents it as a . 
pleafant medicine, and one of the moft mild, 
and perhaps one of the moft powerful, which 
art or nature ever yet produced. 
from the Cockermouth road, and fronts the 
Weft; itisraifed by aleaden pump(cafed in oak ~ 
and Skiddow-flate) ereéted by Mr. William - 
Jackfon, for the ‘ufe of his farms “and. his 
horfes. 
‘The depth of rain which fell in Carlifle 
laft month, was 325 parts of an inch.— |, 
Greateft height of the barometer 30.25.— 
Leaft ditto 29 83. 
thermometer 70° leaft ditto 32 re 
Married. } Mr. . Simpfon, mercer and , 
draper, of Workington, to Mils Hodge, of . 
‘Cockérmouth, 
It is fituated | 
in the lordfhip of Brundholm, about 280 | 
yards N.W. of Kefwick-bridge, and nine yards ~ 
Greateft height of the. . 
