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for them three times, hoe them once, rec- 

 kon the mean value at two guineas an acre, 

 and feed them with nothing but fheep. 

 They cultivate a great deal of fainfoine, 

 fow it generally with barley that fucceeds 

 turnips, 4, 4^, and fometimes 5 bufhels of 

 feed to the acre ; they reckon that the land 

 cfinnot be made too fine for it ; it lafls 

 twenty years. They always mow it once, 

 and never more, and get for about a dozen 

 years two loads of hay per acre at an ave- 

 rage, but for the firft year only one load. 

 If they cut it oftencr, they reckon that it 

 damages it much. The particulars I gained 

 of a farm were, 



£• 100 



which, with a great variety of furniture, 

 are elepant. In the following rooms are, 

 Fruit and flowers, by M. Angelo \ fine. 

 Venus and Cupid, by jV. PouJJin -, fine ; but the 



i\- yblue a ftrange one indeed. 

 Four pictures, by Carlo Marratt, but not in his 



beft manner. 

 Defcent of the Holy Ghofl y by Le Brun ; heads 



amazingly fine. 

 Virgin and Child •, Correggio ; the colouring, &c. 

 of this picture does not equal the idea one has 

 formed of this great inafter. 

 IVifcmcns offerings ; Carlo Bold. The finilhing 

 of this picture is very fine ; the airs of the 

 heads noble, the attitude of the child excel- 

 lent, and the colours and clear obfeure of 

 great merit. 



Martyrdom 





