BLOUNT at Uphusband has one, which now weighs about thirty score, and will possibly weigh forty, for she moves about very easily yet. This is the weight of a good ox; and yet, what a little thing it is compared to an ox! Between Cricklade and this place (Cirencester) I met, in separate droves, about two thousand Welsh Cattle, on their way from Pembrokeshire to the fairs in Sussex. The greater part of them were heifers in calf. They were purchased in Wales at from 3_l._ to 4_l._ 10_s._ each! None of them, the drovers told me, reached 5_l._ These heifers used to fetch, at home, from 6_l._ to 8_l._, and sometimes more. Many of the things that I saw in these droves did not fetch, in Wales, 25_s._ And they go to no _rising_ market! Now, is there a man in his senses who believes that this THING can go on in the present way? However, a fine thing, indeed, is this fall of prices! My "cottager" will easily get his cow, and a young cow too, for less than the 5_l._ that I talked of. These Welsh heifers will calve about May; and they are just the very thing for a cottager. _Gloucester, Thursday (morning), Nov. 8._ In leaving Cirencester, which is a pretty large town, a pretty nice town, and which the people call _Cititer_, I came up hill into a country, apparently formerly a down or common, but now divided into large fields by stone walls. Anything so ugly I have never seen before. The stone, which, on the other side of Cirencester, lay a good way under ground, here lies very near to the surface. The plough is continually bringing it up, and thus, in general, come the means of making the walls that serve as fences. Anything quite so cheerless as this I do not recollect to have seen; for the Bagshot country, and the commons between Farnham and Haslemere, have _heath_ at any rate; but these stones are quite abominable. The turnips are not a _fiftieth_ of a crop like those of Mr. Clarke at Bergh-Apton in Norfolk, or Mr. Pym at Reigate in Surrey, or of Mr. Brazier at Worth in Sussex. I see thirty acres here that have less _food_ upon them than I saw the other day upon half an acre at Mr. Budd's at Berghclere. _Can_ it be good farming to plough and sow and hoe thirty acres to get what _may_ be got upon half an acre? Can that half acre cost more than a tenth part as much as the thirty acres? But if I were to go to this thirty-acre farmer, and tell him what to do to the half acre, would he not exclaim with the farmer at Botley: "What! _drow_ away all that 'ere ground between the _lains_! Jod's blood!"--With the exception of a little dell about eight miles from Cititer, this miserable country continued to the distance of ten miles, when, all of a sudden, I looked down from the top of a high hill into _the vale of Gloucester_! Never was there, surely, such a contrast in this world! This hill is called _Burlip Hill_; it is much about a mile down it, and the descent so steep as to require the wheel of the chaise