[ 3' ] 



the following circumftances pretty accu- 

 rate ; in the number of acres perhaps it is 

 not abfolutdy exact ** 



iooo Acres ioo Cows 



7 Farms 650 Sheep 



£. 650 Rent 25 Labourers. 



50 Horfes 

 The Duke of Bedford maintains a large 

 Hock of cattle in the fummer to keep down 

 grafs in his park, he found it difficult to 

 keep them in the winter; this occafioned 

 his practifing the turnip hufbandry upon a 

 large extent of land j and alfo to raife great 



quan- 



*Wooburn Abbey, the noble feat of his Grace the 

 Duke of Bedford, is in all refpefts well worth 

 the view of the curious traveller. The houfe 

 forms a large quadrangle, with a handfome 

 court in the center \ the front to the bafon is 

 the beft. Behind are two large quadrangles 

 of offices diftincl from the houfe, which are 

 very beautiful, plain, and fimple, but ex- 

 tremely proper for the deftination ; they are 

 built like the houfe, of white ftone ; in the 

 center of their principal front is a fmall dome 

 rifing over a porticoed center, fupported by 

 Tufcan pillars, which have a very good effect. 

 Upon the whole, thefe detached offices ap- 

 pear in a more judicious ftate, than any I 

 remember to have feen. 



In the houfe you enter, firft the hall, which 

 though not a well-proportioned or elegant 

 room, is handfome. It is 40 by 37 and 15 



high, 



