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to plough twice, but cannot always; fow 

 four bufhels, and the mean produce they 

 reckon the fame as that of barley. For 

 peafe they ftir once or twice, as it happens ; 

 fow i4- bufhels of feed and gain from 5 

 to 30 bufhels in return. They give two 

 earths for beans ; fow them in every fur- 

 row after the plough, about iL bufhels 

 per acre, never hoe them, and the crop 

 upon an average about 20 bufhels. For 

 turnips three or four ploughings are given ; 

 hoe them always once, and fometimes 

 twice ; feed them off with fheep ; and the 

 large farmers, fome with black Scotch 

 cattle ; and reckon the average of crops at 



Holy Family. Something in the ftile of many of 

 Raphael's pieces. It appears to me to be 

 incomparably fine, though an unequal 

 piece. The child is executed with great 

 fpirit ; his countenance is (like the children 

 of painting) animated ; his attitude fpirited, 

 his thighs well forefhortened, and the co- 

 louring excellent; there is a mellownefs in 

 the tints that is fine. The face of the vir- 

 gin is infipidity itielf, as is ufual, and not 

 badly adapted to the fubjeel in general. 

 The fecondary figures are mean, and the 

 draperies (efpecially the virgin's) in poor 

 ftile. 



From the leads of the houfe, the park and 

 the furrounding country are {etn to great ad- 

 vantage ; nor will you often fee a richer view. 



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