32 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



CHAPTER III. 



BUILDINGS. 



SECTION i. 



Hottfes of Proprietors. 



BESIDES the fcveral fpacious habitations of the prin- 

 cipal proprietors of this county, there are numerous 

 and elegant modern built manfions belonging to the 

 gentlemen ; and others alfo, of an earlier date, mo- 

 dernized with tafte and judgment. Thofe, though 

 pleafing and enchanting objefts of confideration, as fo 

 many proofs of the attachment of their owners to the 

 foil, from whence they derive their refources, do not 

 fo properly come within the idea of an agricultural re- 

 port, as the farm houfes and offices. 



SECT. 2. Farm Houfes and Offices^ tsfc. 



WHICH, as may be fuppofed from the general 

 fize of the farms, are neither large nor convenient ; 

 they confift for the moft part of a low cottage, the 



dwelling 



