298 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

| gates, and when theſe prove inſufficient, by a portion of - the labour of the pariſh, or of the pound-rate, which ; may be levied in its aid, The parochial roads are made and kept in repair by Nx days labour of the pariſh, and by a rate not exceeding ſixpence in the pound, which the ſurveyors may levy with the conſent of the guarter-ſeſions; ſome of theſe are to- lerably good, and others are annually improving. Many of them ſcarcely exceed the ſmalleſt legal breadth allowed Þy ſtatute, which is eight feet»:

Ï ES lo e.[09A. SECT. 2.—Canats

There is not at preſent any canal in the county; but one of great magnitude has been proje&ted from Wigan to Kendall, It is now executing, and when finiſhed, by 10- troducing the coal of Lancafhire into the heart of Weſt- moreland, will be of the greateſt ſervice to its manufac= tures and agriculture. If the coal can be afforded by the proprietors of the canal, at a cheap rate, the town of Ken- dall may then emulate, in the cloth manufzacture, Leeds itſelf, Another canal, from the bottom of Windermere water to the ſea, a diſtance of about 4 miles, is wanted; ¡f this ſhould ever be cut, the town of Amblefide would riſe to canfiderable importance; it would then be as well, or better ſituated for trade, than Kendall is now.

SECT: 3:— Fairs,

There is a great fair for cattle, horſes,&c. at Brough- hill, on the zoth September;¡—there is a fair at Ambleſide on the Wedneſday after Whitſunday, and on the 29th of Oétober,—at Appleby on Whitſun Eve, Whitſun Mon- day, 2d Wedneſday of June, and 21 Auguſt,—at Ken- dall, April 27, and November 8 and 9,—at Kirkby Lonf-

dale, on Holy Thurſday, and 21 December,—at Kirkby=- Stephen,

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