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ORNAMENT. The views are frequently picturable, and ſometimes grand: but they cloy, through a frequency of repetition, and a degree of ſameneſs.

HaARvESTING. Buſy handreaping:“ ſaw ſeveral women at work. Make ſhocks of ten ſheaves: nine in a fquare, and one as a hood, as in Devonfhire. But, unleſs the ſtraw be long, and the hood ſheaf be made large and ſtraight, the covering is incompleat. Mow chiefly with bows; but cradles, I fee, are to be ſold. About Bodmin, the Wheat in general ſeems to be made into“ arriſp mous,“ or field ſtack- lets, of about a load each.

FuRZE. There are two diſtinct ſpecies, or varieties, now in full blow. The lower ſkirts of the uncultivated hills are gilded with them. One of them is the creeping ſort, which is common to the Southern Counties; the other is called the“ French Furze;“ and Taviſtock, I underſtand, has long been a market for Furze ſeed.

The GENERALSTATE OF HUSBANDRVY, in ſome parts of this ride, is above medio- grity; except in the culture of Turneps.

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