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aᷓ wAIN3“ and it is a hay cart, or wain, without ſides: having only two arches bending over the wheels, to keep the load from bearing upon them! with a wince behind. How fimple; and, being low, how eaſily loaded! I met two on the road, laden with wool; each, with two oxen at the pole, and two horſes before them. MaäANURE. Lime and Beat afhes are

univerſal. A conſiderable portion of the country is now ſet with roof heaps of Lime, and with velled Beat, now burning. A V great quantity of earth, I ſee, is burnt. All, no doubt, for Wheat. Theoriſts I V Eind are, here, againſt burning the ſoil; but Farmers, to a man, I underſtand, are for it.

The rILrLAGE is apparently better, here, than in Devonfhire. About Leſkard, the land appears to be in a good ſtate of culti- vation.

ORCHARpS evidently diminifh, with the diſtance Weſtward.

WoopLANDsS.— Very few: ſome diſtant Oak coppice.— Peeling on the ſtub extends into Cornwall,

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