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if he chuses to range about hereafter, I have paved his Way for 

 a Visit at Thornhill by a Letter that I lately wrote to Mr. 

 Mitchell on that Purpose, if he is curious about the West Eiding 

 of Yorkshire ; I do not know what peculiar natural Curiosities 

 it may produce, but the general Face of it is the most beautifull 

 that I ever saw. The Mention of that County puts me, in 

 Course, in Mind of Sr George Savile & what You mentioned of 

 his Print : I fancy You mean That, where he is sitting at a 

 Table wth a Plan of ye new Navigation of ye Calder before him. 

 The Dean of Winchester has that Print, & if no better Picture of 

 him comes out, I shall be glad to have That ; but I think the 

 Engraver or Painter has given him the Look of a Madman ; The 

 appearance is in high Deshabille, & the Eesemblance is very 

 unfavourable. I am sorry that You are dissappointed in your 

 Building & in your Hay-making : we have not begun to cut, & 

 as my Lands lie low & moist, we can stand more Sunshine 

 than this nominal Summer has afforded Us : we are however, 

 at present, ripe for ye Scythe : Fires are not yet expelled from 

 our Parlour, especially towards Ev'ning. If all other Circum- 

 sta.nces agreed as well, I own that I preferr even this ungenial 

 Coolness to extream melting Heats : Your Brother John will 

 think England strangely alter'd. You tell me surprizing News 

 of Dr Hawkesworth's Sale of his Work, or rather of ye work 

 that he purloined. I hear but a very middling Character of it, 

 so that the Price far exceeds the Value. 



I can say Nothing at present about a Visit to You, tho' it 

 appears to me very practicable & very agreeable ; but Mrs Mulso 

 is in no state to change her Place at present, & is too low spirited 

 to lay Plans of future Movements. When We have the Pleasure 

 of seeing You here, we will talk about a Eeturn of your kind 

 Visits, which 'indeed are more than we deserve. 



You have heard, I presume, of our Expulsion of Mr Norman 

 from our Cathedral ; possibly You have not read his Book, 

 which in it's Proportion is as dear as Dr Hawkesworth's : but 

 I hope that You have met wth his Letter to Us in the Papers : 

 In Times like these, however tenderly We have demeaned 

 Ourselves to the Man previously to ye Judgement that He has 

 forced from Us, yet we might have had some Chance of being 

 branded as Bigots & Persecutors ; but that I think he has 

 sufficiently cleared Us by the Publication of that Letter. 



My Daughter Jane greives at our Doubts about a Visit to 

 Selbourne. Neicibus it is true grows a great Girl & womanly, 

 & might be thinking of more public places than your Village ; 

 but I thank God She retains her Simplicity, & can be happy in 

 friendly Company & rural Scenes. However, her Ideas have 

 been lately enlarged by a Party to Stokes Bay near Gosport on 

 the Day of highest Shew & Beauty while his Majesty was there. 



