OF NORTHUMBERLAND, B,

Îy runs in extremes, In the Spring months, the cold, piercing, eaſterly winds are moſt prevalent; and out longeſt droughts are always accompanied by them: in ſome places they have acquired the name of /ca-pincs, from the ſlow progreſs vegetation makes whenever they con- tinue for a few weeks Rain 1s of little uſe while they prevail, from the great cold which always attends them.

The mild, weſtern and ſouthern breezes rarely take place before June; they are certain harbingers of rain and vigorous vegetation, and are the moſt prevailing winds through the Summer and Autumn: In the latter ſeaſon, they often blow with tempeſtuous. fury, daſh out the corn, and diſappoint the juſt hopes oſ the induſtrious farmer.

Our greateſt falls of ſnow, or rain, are from the ſouth, or ſouth-eaſt; and whenever we have a very high weſt wind, it is a certain fign that a great quantity of rain is falling to the weſtward, in Cumberland and Roxburgh=

ſhire.

\ SECT. 4.— Soil and Surface.

4 ftrong fertile clayey loam—occupies the level tract of country along the coaſt, and reaches as far up in general as the great poſt road. Tt is well adapted to the culture of wheat, pulſe, clover, and grazing,

Sandy, gravelly, and dry loam—or what is here more generally underſtood by turnip ſoil, is-found on the banks of rhe Tyne, from Newburn to Haltwhiſtle; on the Co- quet, about and above Rothbury; on the Aln, from its mouth to Alnwick; and down Tweed-fide: But the- greateſt quantity of this kind of ſoil is found in the vales of Breamiſh, Till, and Beaumont. The hills ſurrounding the Cheviot mountains are moſtly a dry, channelly, ſharp- pointed, gravelly loam,

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