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group of angels at the top, to the left of the 

 piece, are very natural. It is a piece of great 

 merit. The companion is a magdalen j the 

 exprefllon of melancholy, or rather mifery, 

 remarkably ftrong. There is a gloom in the" 

 whole in full unifon with the fubject. There 

 are, befides thefe, fome others inferior, yet of 

 merit, and two very good portraits of Lord 

 Dartry, (Mrs. Quin's brother) and of Mr. 

 Quin, junior, by Pompeio Battoni. A piece 

 in an uncommon ftile, done on oak, of Efther 

 and Ahafuerus : the colours tawdry, but the 

 grouping attitudes an effect pleafing. 



October 7th, to Cattle Oliver, by Bruff, 

 paffing through a very fine tract of rich recfdifh 

 loam. The Right Hon. Mr. Oliver was afli- 

 duous to the laft degree to have me completely 

 informed. About his feat, the foil is brown 

 ftone on indifferent flate ilrata, mountainous ; 

 the mountain tops are thrown into the bar- 

 gain ; mountain farms, tops, bottoms and 

 iides, is. an acre ; furze land reclaimed, and 

 fome from 153. to aos. Farms of all fizes, but 

 the occupying tenants have from 15 to 100 

 acres, fome 300. The courfe of crops : 



i. Potatoes. 2. Potatoes. 3. Potatoes. 4. 

 Oats. 5. Oats. 6. Oats. 7. Lay out : fome- 

 times only two of potatoes. 



They manure for potatoes with all the dung 

 they can get. Very little under tillage, and 

 the grafs applied chiefly to dairies. In Gne 



particular 



