Identifier: journaloftourres00simorich (find matches)
Title: Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain (electronic resource) : during the years 1810 and 1811
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Simond, L. (Louis), 1767-1831
Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel Great Britain -- Social life and customs 19th century
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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It is his own he sees ; his masters eyePeers not about, some secret fault to spy :Nor voice severe is there, nor censure known,—Hope, profit, pleasure—they are all his own. I was struck with the following ingenious methodof constructing covered drains, by means of bricks,9 inches long, 6 wide, and 3i inches in thickness.On one of the sides is pressed in, at making the bricks,half a cylindrical piece of wood, of 3 inches in dia-meter. Two bric:ks of this form, laid face to face,leave of course a circular hole of three inches be-tween them for the passage of water, and placedend to end at the bottom of a ditch, and, coveredwith earth, form a permanent drain, not liable togo out of order. Here is the plan of a good farming-establish-ment of this country, which, although not uniform-ly that of all the farms, yet gives an idea of thatgood order, and finish of utility, so generally ob-servable in this country. 294 FLAN OF A far:ming establishment. Scale of Fext I T I t I I I J Jo -JO Jo
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CHESHIRE—LANDS—LIVERPOOL. 295 The average rate of lands is 30s. an acre. DrHolland informs us, that the county of Cheshire(a spot of 35 miles, perhaps, by 25,) reckons fiftyfortunes from L. 3000 to L. 10,000 a-year, and thesame number from L. 1000 to L. 3000. There is visibly less bustle of trade, and lessdisplay of wealth now, at Liverpool, than whenwe first saw it. Failures have been very nume-rous ; there are but few now:—all the totteringhouses have fallen ; the others do nothing, andlive upon their means. The merchants appearsingularly well reconciled to their new situation.In fact, a general calamity, which does not threat-en life or health, and does not deprive us of realnecessaries, is scarcely a calamity. It is of verylittle consequence whether a man keeps his car-riage, or is waited on by one servant or ten, pro-vided his neighbours are not better off than him-self. There are but few private carriages to beseen here at present, and hardly any parties lastwinter, but no

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