From Dunham to Birmingham -Method of making the famous Chefhire cheese - Manu- factures at Knutsford-Management of cows- Staffordshire potteries at Burslem, &c. - Na- Hufbandry from Hagley to Oxford - Lord Lit- tleton's experiments in draining - Manufactures at Worcester - Excellent bufbandry in the Vale of Evesham Mr. Penny's experiments in agriculture-On planting wheat - On fteeps - On barley-On Lucerne - Earl of Lichfield's A SIX MONTHS TOUR, &c. F LETTER XV. ROM Raby to Durham the land is in general very good, letting fo high as from 15s. to 3. but the average is not above 21s. or 22s. Farms in general under an hundred a year. About that city there is much mustard cultivated: The farmers fow it alone, on good rich moift land; and on that which is pared and burnt. They get from thirty to an hundred bushels per acre; and the price varies from 10s. to 20s. a bufhel; fome crops worth 100% an acre have been known. When once muftard has been fown on a piece of land, it can never be got out again : In tillage it rifes with every crop that is fown, which obliges the farmers to lay down fuch lands to grafs, which fmothers it, but if broke up again centuries afterwards, a crop of mustard is fure to rife. Taking the road to Newcastle*, we found * The ornamented grounds of --Carr, Efq; at Cocken, are laid out with fo much tafte, that VOL. III. B it the land in general good, and let very high. That town is too famous in the path of it is a great omiffion in any traveller to pass without feeing them: That Gentleman and his Lady, Lady Mary Carr, have both given much attention to the affifting nature in their very beautiful fpot, by rendering her acceffible. Cocken has the advantage of a fine river, in some places very rapid, and in others calm and smooth; it takes a waving course through the grounds, and has the noble advantage of a various fhoar, in fome places composed of noble rocks, in others of hanging woods, and also of cultivated inclosures: Art has judiciously aimed at nothing more than enabling the fpectator to view these beauties to the best advantage. The first point to which we were conducted, is a feat in a small circular plot, among the wood, north of the houfe, from which Chester steeple is caught in a very picturefque manner, between two projecting hills of wood: The spot is on the brink of a precipice, at the bottom of which the river bends very finely: The country is in general wild and uncultivated; but to the left is a hill of wood, which varies the scene. Winding a little to the left, the walk leads to the dairy, from which, though very near the seat just described, the view is at once quite different, The country is now cultivated, the river divides, and you command it both ways. To the right is a fear of rock, crowned with pendent wood. You are next conducted down the hill, and pursue the walk around a large meadow upon the banks of the river; it then enters a wood under a most romantic wall of rock; the walk (a terrafs |