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iheep; very often fell them to the fheep 

 graziers, the price at an average of years 

 about 50 r . an acre. Particulars of one 

 farm, I heard of, as follows : 

 150 Acres in all 100 Sheep 

 120 Ditto arable 4 Servants 



30 Grafs 2 Labourers 



£.120 Rent 20 Acres of wheat 



6 Horfes 30 Spring corn 



5 Cows 3 1 Turnips 



LABOUR. 



In harveft, 36 to 38 s. a month and board. 

 In hay time, 9 s. a week. 

 In winter, 1 s. and fmall beer. 

 Reaping, 5 s. per acre. 



Mowing, 



Sir P. Lely. Mary in the fepnlcbre after the 

 refurreffion There is iomething pleafino- 

 in the diffufion of light — in the attitudes — 

 and the angel's drapery. 



Cleopatra. What fubjecT: fo unpleaiing as beauty 

 in pain ! Venus gay and voluptuous, drawn 

 in the car of the Loves ; — or appearing in 

 all the grace of motion to /Eneas, are the 



painter's iubjecls •, not the lame goddefs 



lamenting over the dead body of Adonis. 

 This Cleopatra is admirably executed; 

 there is a mellownefs in the colouring of 

 the flefh, — a warmnefs in the tints, ex- 

 tremely exprefllve. 



In 



