MOORLANDS, (Miscellaneous) in the N. part of Staff, where the land rises gradually into small hills, which run through the
middt of England in one continued ridge, rising higher and higher to Scotland, and sending forth many rs. The soil here is
so foul and cold, that the snows lie almost all the year on the tops of the hills; and it is withal very rugged and
barren, yet yields plenty of coal, lead, copper, rance-marble, and mill-stones; and some of the lime-stone hills bear such
a sweet, though short grass, as is very grateful to the oxen, of which here is a very good breed. It is observed here,
that the W. wind always brings rain, and the E. and S. fair weather; that tho' this tract is full of bogs, it is as
healthy as any other part of the Co. and that it produces the same plants as the Peak of Derby.