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value at about 40 s. an acre, and feed them 

 off with fheep alone, They ufe foui or five 

 horfes at length in their ploughs, and yet do 

 no more than an acre a day. The reader 

 will not forget the foil being iandy, the re- 

 quifite team is certainly nearer a fingle jack- 

 als than five horfes. This miferable ma- 

 nagement cannot be too much condemned. 

 The product of a cow they lay at near 4 /. 

 They let their dairies at 3 /. a head. The 

 particulars I gained of a farm are, 



100 Acres 200 Sheep (a walk) 



JT. 60 Rent 2 Servants 



8 Horfes 3 Labourers 



12 Cows 



P RO- 

 of land beautifully laid out in the modern 

 tafte, with many moll: glorious oaks in it. 

 From thence we advanced to the hill at the 

 north end, from which is a vaft profpect into 

 Buckinghamjhire^ Hertford/hire, and Bedford- 

 Jhire ; turning down the hill to the left, the 

 riding leads to the evergreen plantation of 

 above 200 acres of land, which thirty 

 years ago was a barren rabbit warren, but 

 now a clofe winter's ride, on a dry foil, 

 with all forts of evergreens of a growth. 

 About the middle on the left hand, is an 

 handfome temple, retired and pleafing: At the 

 end of this plantation, we came to the lower 

 water, which is about ten acres, and in the 

 center, an ifland with a very elegant and light 

 Chinefe temple, large enough for thirty people 



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