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 now of Capt. 'Turnpenny. \\\ that line of 

 country land lets at an average at iis. j^r 

 acre. Farms from 20/. to 200/. a year. 



In this country is dug the famous blazing 

 cannel coal. 



Arriving at Hales OwenyWc walked up to 

 the Leajhwes ; but here I llirald intimate, 

 that as the late Mr. Dodjley gave a parti- 

 cular account of thefe grounds in fo popular 

 a book as Sbenjiones Works, I fliall only 

 minute a few circumftances, either omitted 

 in that account, or finiOied fince it was 

 wrote : And take the liberty of remarking 

 wherein Mr. Dodjley fell (hort of, or exag- 

 gerated, the beauty of his original. 



The cafcade, viewed from the root houfe 

 infcribed to the Earl of Stamford, is afto- 

 nifliingly romantic; a large fpace of ground 

 at your feet, for above an hundred and ^iiy 

 yards, is thickly covered with the ftems of 

 fine oaks Gfc. a fall of water at the farther 

 end of this ground firfl: breaks to your view, 

 and then forms twenty more before it reach- 

 es you, all broke into difl:in(5t flieets, wild- 

 ly irregular, by the intervening and crofling 

 flems of the trees above; their branches 

 and leaves form a fine thick canopy of (liade, 

 which fetts off moH: glorioufly the ilieets 

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