Copy 1, Volume 1

A six months tour through the north of England / Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom ... Interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry; and other remarkable objects.

  • Young, Arthur, 1741-1820.
Date:
1770
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A six months tour through the north of England / Containing, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several counties of this kingdom ... Interspersed with descriptions of the seats of the nobility and gentry; and other remarkable objects. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ av ] pers, and in all the country ones, pubhifhed near my intended rout. The AuTuor of. the Six Weeks Tour ‘thro’ the fouthern counties of England and Wales, propofing to undertake this fummer a Tour through Ture Nortu.or ENGLAND, begs leave to requeft fuch of the nobility, gentry, landlords, farmers, and others, as poflefs, or are acquainted with, any par- ticular improvements, experyments, cuf- toms, implements, @&e. in the agricul- ture of the following counties, viz. Hert- fordfhire, Bedfordfhire, Huntingdonflire, Nor thamptenfbire, Rutlandjbire, Leicefterfoire, Nottinghamflire, Lincolnfhire, Derbyflire, Yorkfhire, Durham, Northumberland, Cum- berland, Weftmoreland, Lancafbire, Chefhire, Shropfhire, Staffordfhire, Worcefterfhire, War- wick/kire, and Buekingbamfhire, to inform him of fuch circumftances, with exact di- rections to the places where fuch improve- ments, €c. are carried on. He fhould not take the hberty of this general addrefs to perfons unknown, were it not, that he might probably, without this previous in- timation, overlook many improvements and exveriments in hufbandry, and return unac-