and there remaines in many parts of y^e Country. Gascoyn is a little market town—one Church in it w^{ch} is a mile off from y^e town, and y^e parish is 8 miles long, which discourag’d me in staying there being Satterday night and so pressed on to Lancaster. I percieve most of y^e parishes are a great tract of Land and very Large and also beneficial, for all over Lancastershire the revenues of y^e parsonages are Considerable 2 and 300^£ 500 and 800 a piece, y^e parson at Liverpoole has 1100 a yeare, and its frequent Everywhere 3 or 400^£. Thence to Lancaster town 10 mile more which I Easily Reached in 2 hours and a halfe or 3 hours; I passed through abundance of villages almost at y^e End of Every mile, mostly all along Lanes being an Enclosed Country. They have one good thing in most parts of this principality, or County palatine its rather Call’d, that at all Cross wayes there are posts w^{th} hands pointing to each road w^{th} y^e names of y^e great town or market towns that it Leads to, w^{ch} does make up for y^e Length of y^e miles y^t strangers may not Loose their Road and have it to goe back againe. You have a great divertion on this road haveing a pleasing prospect of y^e Countrys a great distance round, and see it full of jnclosures and some woods, three miles off y^e town you see it very plaine and y^e sea, Even y^e main ocean; in one place an arm of it Comes up w^{th} in 2 mile of y^e town. Y^e River Liene runs by the town and so into y^e sea. Y^e situation of Lancaster town is very good, y^e Church neately built of stone, y^e Castle w^{ch} is just by, both on a very great ascent from y^e Rest of y^e town and so is in open view, y^e town and River Lying Round it beneath. On y^e Castle tower walking quite round by y^e battlements I saw y^e whole town and river at a view, w^{ch} runs almost quite round and returns againe by y^e town, and saw y^e sea beyond and y^e great high hills beyond y^t part of y^e sea, w^{ch} are in Wales, and also into Westmoreland to the great hills there Called ffurness ffells or hills, being a string of vast high hills together: also into Cumberland to y^e great hill Called Black Comb hill whence they digg their black Lead and no where Else; but they open y^e mine but once in Severall yeares. I also saw into Yorkshire,—there is Lead, Copper, gold and silver in some of those hills and marble and Christall also.