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it, a stratum dipping to the East is said todip to six o’clock.

In the scientific language of this country,it is usual to express the inclination of a bedby the angle it makes with the horizon jbut the expression among labouring peopleis, it dips so many inches in the yard.

In travelling over an extent of country,the direction of the beds is characterizedby sameness and uniformity. Every slopeis opposed to another of correspondingsteepness, unless when other causes operateso as to render insensible the operation ofthis. There is little variety in the produc-tions of the land, or the condition and em-ployment of the inhabitants. In travellingalong the line of dip, on the contrary, oureyes are continually regaled with a changeof scenery. Every hill has a character ofits own, and is succeeded either by hills ofa different character, or not un frequentlyby a flat. Where the ascent is steep onone side, the descent is gradual on theother. Commons succeed to inclosures,pasture to arable, wolds to marshes, a

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