000 01814cam a22001935a 4500
001 L155374
008 120320s1770 xxk f 000 0 eng d
035 _a(Sirsi) u155374
041 0 _aeng
100 1 _aYoung, Arthur
_d1741-1820
245 0 2 _aA six months tour through the North of England
_bContaining, an account of the present state of agriculture, manufactures and population, in several Counties of this Kingdom. Particularly, I. The Nature, Value, and Rental of the Soil. II. The Size of Farms, with Accounts of their Stock, Products, Population, and various Methods of Culture. III. The Use, Expence, and Profit of several Sorts of Manure. IV. The Breed of Cattle, and the respective Profits attending them. V. The State of the Waste Lands which might and ought to be cultivated. VI. The Condition and Number of the Poor, with their Rates, Earnings, &c. Vii. The Prices of Labour and Provisions, and the Proportion between them. Viii. The Register of many curious and useful Experiments in Agriculture, and general Practices in rural Oeconomics communicated by several of the Nobility, Gentry, &c. &c. Interspersed With Descriptions of the Seats of the Nobility and Gentry; and other remarkable Objects: Illustrated with Copper Plates of such Implements of Husbandry, as deserve to be generally known; and Views of some picturesque Scenes, which occurred in the Course of the Journey. In four volumes. ...
260 _aLondon
_bprinted for W. Strahan; W. Nicoll, No 11. in St. Paul's Church-Yard; B. Collins, at Salisbury; and J. Balfour, at Edinburgh
_cMDCCLXX. [1770]
300 _a4v., plates, tables
_bmap
_c8o
520 _aDedication signed: Arthur Young.
583 _aCondition reviewed
_c20120620
_lcondition level 2
651 4 _aGreat Britain
_y1707-
690 _aRural
_96268
942 _n0
999 _c113518
_d113518