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friend gladly acceded to my proposal of making a visit to one, where I was sure to meet a hearty welcome. We found our host at home, and soon en­ gaged him to shew us his fields, which con­ tained upwards of sixty acres, all enclosed with living fences, and presenting a most gra­ tifying proof of the industry of their owner. Whichever way we turned our eyes, no waste spot was discernible. Rye, barley, oats, pease, tares, and potatoes, waved, without inter­ mission, over the exuberant soil; while, in other fields, the abundant clover almost over­ topped the sportive lambs which frisked around their dams, tethered with long ropes to the ground.* * Since the dissolution of partnership among the pea­ sants the respective fields have mostly been enclosed. In order, therefore, to prevent their stock from injuring the corn, or from breaking through the hedges into the fields of their neighbours, they peg their horses, cows, sheep, and hogs, to the ground, by means of a rope several yards long. The laws for the preservation of fences and fields are extremely rigid. Proprietors have not only a right to