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And how unufual a thing foever it may be 

 to them, 'tis certain there can be no better 

 Method to furnifh themfelves with Statues 

 and other Ornamental Works in Stone, than 

 by continually employing four or five Mafons, 

 and as many or more Carvers in that Work 5 

 *tis inconceivable what a Show fuch a num- 

 ber cf Men will make in four or five Years 

 time ^ and the Expence in keepi^ng, no more 

 than that of other common Servants, Wages 

 excepted. 



But methinks in this Cafe, they ought to 

 have, as it were, a little Acamedy to them- 

 felves, and fuch a handfome Preparation of 

 Meat, Drink, and Lodging, as is convenient, 

 with fuch an Allowance of found Country 

 Food as may refrefh their Labours 5 but this 

 ought to be as far as poflible from all Tipling- 

 Houfes, the Bane of all Ingenuity ^ with fuch 

 an Encouragement given to the Induftrious, 

 and fuch Difcouragement to the contrary, as 

 may make them ftrive to out-doe each other in 

 Ingenuity and Performance : And being un- 

 der the Care of fome folid, fober Man, what 

 may not be expefted from them in a few 

 Years ? 



Thither may the Owner, in all his leifure 

 Intervals, retreat and confider their Works 

 and Improvements, and give them fuch far- 

 ther Encouragement as he fhall fee is moft 

 convenient for them, and there, what by 

 Drawings, Workmanlhip, and the like, he 



may 



