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times, low four bufhels, and get in return 

 about three quarters. For oats they plough 

 but once, fow four bufhels, and reap at an 

 average three quarters. For peafe and 

 beans mixed they likewife plough but once, 

 fow four bufhels, their crop not above 2? 

 quarters. They give but one tilth for 

 beans alone, fow them broad-caft, never 

 hoe them, but turn in fheep to feed off the 

 weeds, and reckon three quarters a mid- 

 dling crop. This is an execrable cuftom, 

 and ought to be exploded by all landlords 

 of the country. For turnips they ftir three 

 or four times, hoe them twice, reckon the 



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fet, the face and hands very finely done ; alfo 

 [Villi am Earl of Bedford and Lady Catharine 

 Brook, excellent. The ornaments of this 

 room are all carving painted white : There 

 are four ftatues, among them a Venus of 

 Medicis, but not pleafing; and a Venus 

 plucking the thorn out of her foot, but with 

 none of that exprefiion of pain in her counte- 

 nance which is fofine in the antique atlVilton. 

 Wooburn park is 10 miles around, and con- 

 tains variety of hill and dale, with woods 

 of noble oaks; we drove from the houfe 

 through them towards the fouth, and looked 

 up the great glade which is cut through 

 the park for feveral miles, and catches 

 at the end of it a Chinefe temple ; then 

 winding through the woods we came to 

 the Duchcfs's fhrubbery, containing \6 acres 



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