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regularity. It appeared as if in this fpot, the plan of the SpunA
iegiilator had taken place : It refembled the poffeffions of brethren, who.
had juji been dividing their inheritance among them.
Before I quit thefe delicious traits, I muft remark, that froii
Leyboume to their extremity there is fcarcely a mile but what is term!
nated by a little town ; and every fpot, even far up the hills, enl
bellifhed with fmall neat houfes. -Induftry and competence feem Ii
reign among thefe happy regions, and, highland as they are, fteffl
diftinguilhed by thofe circumftances from the ilothful but honeill
natives of fome of the Scottijh Alps. Mittens and knit ftockings art!]
their manufactures. The hills produce lead ; the vallies cattfl
horfes, iheep, wool, butter, and cheefe.
Afcend a fteep a mile in length, and at the top arrive on a largd
plain, a pafs between the hills. After two miles defcend ir.ro i
mere glen, watered by the Wharf-, ride through Backden, ana
Star-bottom, two villages, and lie at Kettlewel, a fmall mine ton™
There are many lead-mines about the place, and fome.coal; but!
peat is the general fuel, and oat-cakes, or bannocks, the uliijfl
bread.
Continue our journey along a pleafant valp. Ride beneath KiM
fey-fcar, a ftupendous rock, ninety-three yards high, more than pe||
pendicular, for it overhangs at top in a manner dreadful to the trig
veller. The road bad, made of broken limeftones uncovered. Thisj
vale ends in a vaft theatre of wood, and gave me the idea of an Amei
rican fcene. Afcend, and get into a hilly and lefs pleafing countryj
Overtake many droves of cattle and horfes, which had been at graft;
the whole fummer in the remoteft part of Craven, where they were
kepi