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ioj. per acre ; their caurfe of crops with 

 fome variations, 

 i. Fallow 



2. Wheat 



3. Peafe or oats, 



and in light lands it goes on, 



4. Turnips 



5. Barley 



They plough four times for wheat ; fow 

 two bufhels and an half, and reap on a 

 medium 23 bufhels : For barley they ftir 

 three times, fow four bufhels, and gain in 

 return 4^- quarters. For oats they chufe 



to 



Gallery 105 by 20. Here are feveral pictures : 



Among others, 

 Rubens. The Lafi Supper ; but more like a 



banquet of Vulcan. 

 Baffan. Abraham and Lot. Cattle piece; in 



his rough manner. 

 Virgin and Child; with a rabbit introduced: It 



feems to be taken from Correggio ; the atti- 

 tude excellent. k 

 Raphael. Petrarch's, Laura : Very fine finifhingj 



but not the Laura of Petrarch's poetry. 

 Baffan. Chrifi praying: In the rough ttile : 



the lights thrown remarkably ftrong. 

 A Ruin. Very finely executed. 

 Abraham's Head. Sketched in a very noble flile* 

 In this room is a table inlaid with marble,, 



pebbles, granate, &c. curious. 

 In the room over the kitchen. 

 Cherries XII. A portrait. Spirited; the fame 



as tn the picture gallery at Oxford. 



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