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as well as favourable are related with fuch 

 candour *. 



From Hatfield quite to Welivyn, the foil 

 continues a light gravel, but moft of the 

 occupiers poffefs fome fields of ftronger 

 land, upon which they raife better wheat 

 than on their gravels. About B'iJliop\ 

 Hatfield, farms run in general from 70 and 

 80/. to 140 /. a year rent, about 12 s. at 

 an average. Their courfe of crops is in 



general, 



1. Fallow 4. Fallow 



2. Wheat 5. Turnips 



3. Peafe or oats 6. Barley, 



which is very good. For wheat they 

 plough four times, fow two bufhels and 



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* Hatfield House, the feat of the Earl of 

 Salifbury, is fituated in a very beautiful park 

 clofe to the town of Hatfield. The variety of 

 ground is fine, and the profpects rich and ex- 

 tcnfive. The houfe, which is very capacious, 

 is in the ftile of the ao;e of Elizabeth : and con- 

 veys very ftrongly from its magnitude and a 

 certain air of grandeur, the idea of an ancient 

 and confiderable family : It tells the fpectator 

 very forcibly, Here does not refide a family of 

 yefierday. 



Many of the rooms are large, and well pro- 

 portioned. The following arethofe I was fhewed; 

 they are minuted in the order I viewed them. 



The chapel ; the glafs of the windows finely 

 painted •, here are fcyeral pictures, much da- 

 maged 



