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tafte and fuccefs. The attention (he has given 

 to this rational amufement, and the fenfible 

 and agreeable manner in which fhe renders 

 every tree intereiling by her defcriptions and 

 remarks, are formed to fet off a female charac- 

 ter in a light at leaft as refpectable and as amia- 

 ble as the moft brilliant exhibition that a 

 capital can witnefs. The twig which fhe 

 plants with her hand, and nourifhes by her 

 care, will not difappoint her in the pleafure fhe 

 expefts j it will thrive with her attention, and 

 greet her with its friendly fhade : when will 

 Dublin prove as grateful ? 



October 12th, to Lord de Montalt's at Dun- 

 drum, a place which his Lordfhip has orna- 

 mented in the modern ftile of improvement: 

 the houfe was fituated in the midlt of all the 

 regular exertions of the laft age. Parterres, pa- 

 rapets of earth, ftraight walks, knots and dipt 

 hedges, all which he has thrown down, with 

 an infinite number of hedges and ditches, 

 rilled up ponds, &c. and opened one very no- 

 ble lawn around him, fcattered negligently 

 over with trees, and cleared the courfe of a 

 choaked up river, fo that it flows at prefent in 

 a winding courfe through the grounds. He 

 continues this work of drefling the fields con- 

 tiguous to him, to give them a neat appearance, 

 and advances in it every year, even his tillage 

 lands are all kept in the fame neat manner, 

 with fences new done, and the whole carrying 

 the moft cultivated appearance. 



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