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mouth a good revenue in hospitality to such strangers 

 as came from Bath to see it. 



Lord Cholmondeley's 



is a noble old seat, the gardens not inferior to 

 any in England, and one gravel walk the longest I 

 have seen. 



Lord Chetwyntfs. 



A fine old seat, whose gardens are incomparably 

 fine ; the walks hedged in with trees fully fifty feet 

 high and thick set, are very august, and open in fine 

 vistas into the adjacent country. 



Sir Clement Fisher's, near Coleshill, 



is very beautiful ; in the middle of a spacious park, 

 with fine gardens, fish-ponds, and a decoy for ducks ; 

 it may, altogether, vie with the best seats in England. 

 Most gentlemen keep their packs of dogs, and the 

 whole county of Stafford is very sociable ; they have 

 excellent ale, and provisions for almost nothing. 



Althorp 



is a fine seat in the middle of a charming park ; it is 

 moated, but the moat was drained and turned into a 

 garden so fine, that M. La Quintinie took the plan 

 for some of his works at Versailles. 



