A Six Months Tour Through the North of England: Containing, an Account of the Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures and Population, ... In Four VolumesW. Strahan; W. Nicoll; T. Cadell; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh, 1771 |
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Seite 434 - ... to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs by overthrows or breakings down. They will here meet with ruts which I actually measured four feet deep, and floating with mud only from a wet summer...
Seite 415 - ... a great Kingdom there must always be hands that are idle, backward in the age of work, unmarried for fear of having families, or industrious only to a certain degree. Now an increase of employment raises wages and high wages changes the case of all these hands; the idle are converted to industry; the young come early to work; the unmarried are no longer fearful of families and the formerly industrious become so in a much greater degree. It is an absolute impossibility that in such circumstances...
Seite 13 - No fallow crop is more advantageous to the foil, nor could there be a greater improvement in three-fourths of the counties of England, than introducing potatoes into the courfes of their fields, as regularly, upon, foils proper for them, as turneps, or any other vegetable. The common objection to cultivating them in large quantities, is the want of a market ; but fuch a plea is an abfolute piece of gothicifm.
Seite 434 - I know not in the whole range of language terms sufficiently expressive to describe this infernal road. To look over a map, and perceive that it is a principal one, not only to some towns, but even whole counties, one would naturally conclude it to be at least decent ; but let me most seriously caution all travellers who may accidentally purpose to travel this terrible country to avoid it as they would the devil, for a thousand to one but they break their necks or their limbs...
Seite 397 - Now the most inattentive eye must be able, at the slightest glance, to specify abundance of various kinds of income omitted in this table ; but I by no means aim at an accuracy in a matter that requires it not : All I would endeavour to show, is, that the income of the whole people is a very great sum, compared to all public wants ! and that it, in all probability, amounts to considerably more than an hundred millions.
Seite 410 - ... in a word, to be a great industrious country. Now, I conceive that it is impossible to prove such points without proportionally proving the Kingdom to be a populous one. It is in vain to talk of tables of births, and lists of houses and windows, as proofs of our loss of people: the flourishing state of our agriculture, our manufactures, and commerce, with our general wealth, prove the contrary.
Seite 417 - ... to be taken, in order to afcertain the degree in which a country was flourifhing. Two-and-twenty years ago, in my " Tour through the North of England, 1769...
Seite 415 - But he goes on: It is employment that creates population: marriages are early and numerous in proportion to the amount of employment. In a great Kingdom there must always be hands that are idle, backward in the age of work, unmarried for fear of having families, or industrious only to a certain degree. Now an increase of employment raises wages and high wages changes the case of all these hands; the idle are converted to industry; the young come early to work; the unmarried are no longer fearful...
Seite 430 - Cross ; and extremely bad. You are obliged to cross the moors they call Black Hambledon, over which the road runs in narrow hollows that admit a south country chaise with such difficulty, that I reckon this part of the journey made at the hazard of my neck. The going down into Cleveland is beyond all description terrible ; for you go through such steep, rough, narrow, rocky precipices, that I would sincerely advise any friend to go an hundred miles about to escape it.