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when I think of them. I make Haste to reflect on what always 

 enlarges & improves it, that You encourage me more & more to 

 subscribe Myself. 



Dear Gil, Your ever faithfull & affte Friend, 



Jno Mulso. 



Letter 23. 



Sunbury, 



Aug : 30, 1750. 

 Dear Gil : 



I write to You at your Eequest into ye Depths of Devon, 

 tho' I have nothing material to say to You : You live a scambling 

 [sic] rantipole Life & have a great Variety of Objects to be 

 painted upon Paper (at which Landscape Painting I think You 

 a great & masterly Hand) & sent to your sedentary Friends ; 

 we receive them & think we are Travelling wth you for five 

 Minutes, & then look up & find Ourselves in the same tedious 

 Scene in which we have rather bee7i than acted for a Length of 

 Days. My Journeys of late have consisted in going from Sunbury 

 to Hampton & returning from Hampton to Sunbury : only One 

 Elopement I have made for about eight Days, & that was to 

 Eickmansworth to Captn Young's. It is a Place that I could 

 like much if it was more comeattable, but I cannot think of a 

 Place where it is not safe to ride without a Servant, where not 

 a Horse can pass for half a Mile together, & that on a steep Hill 

 where a Carriage may run upon You without being able to help 

 it : which is the Case almost all round that Town. This Un- 

 evenness however gives a great Beauty to ye whole, & makes it 

 much in your Taste ; indeed I never see a Spot which lies much 

 out of Levell but I think of You, & say " ay, now this would 

 please White." More-Park, which is at ye End of the Town 

 is a Beautifull Place. There is a grand House, with fine 

 Collonades & in high Taste, but so ridiculously managed as to 

 it's approach, that You may drop down a Steep wall, if You 

 do not take care, when You think You are gradually descending 

 to it, for there is a large Sweep before it, which is cut out of 

 ye Hill to be a Flat, & wall'd Bound like ye Garden on Heddinton 

 Hill: ye grand Gate is on one Side just at ye End of ye right 

 wing : the garden Side is very handsome, but ye whole neglected 

 & running to Ruin. You enter a noble Hall, adorned with good 

 Painting, & much gilding, a Square Room wth a golden Gallery 

 round it aloft in air, that lets You into all ye upper Apartments, 

 a good Saloon behind it, with a very fine Aurora of Verrio's on ye 

 Ceiling, for ye Sake of which, & the Hall, the old House was 

 refresh'd & made new in that queer Spot. There is one Room 

 entirely Stucco, with alto Relievoes in Pannel & Medallion, but to 



