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Proſpect Houſe on the top, is ſeen at great diſtances; but a hill weſtward of it, over- looking Callington, is ſaid to be the higheſt land, in the County. Many ragged 72, of the true mountain caſt, are ſeen in this ride. CLIMATURE. On the hangs of the Mountains, corn is ſtill green; but in the lower lands, harveſt is now(the twentythird of Auguſt) at its height:---more than half cut, and ſome carried.

The sUuRFACE is exceedingly broken, into fharp ridges, and deep, ſteepſided vallies; eſpecially on the lower declivities of the general range of hills; as between Callington and Leſkard. parts, as between Leſkard and Bodmin, the

On the upper

ſwells are more rounded, and the vallies

wider and leſs ſteep.

Theé soi is very various, as to quality; but even the tops of the lower mountains are far from barren; ſupporting numerous herds of cattle, as well as many ſheep: much more productive of graſs, than the heaths of Yorkfhire; though every part produces more or leſs heath. Between

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