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the time the turnips were flocked for eat- 

 ing, which was in March j 768 ; it grew 

 to about '8 or 20, and fbme 22 inches in 

 length, having received no damage by the 

 inclemency of the weather, although the 

 turnips rotted much ; and I verily believe 

 it did as much fervice to the flieep, as the 

 beft acre of turnips in the ground. They 

 being remarkably fonder of the burnet than 

 the turnips, I was under a nccejTity of eat- 

 ing of it until all the turnips were eaten 

 off, and the turnip land Towed with bar- 

 ley, which was the firft week in Aprils 

 Old Stile. 



" It grew, and was a tolerable good crop 

 to all appearance, but (being a ftranger to 

 it) I believe it flood two or three days 



longer 



ftrangely abfurd ; the Virgin holds the Child 

 in he/ lap, as a crier would a parcel of 

 oranges. 



Virgin fuppor ting the dead bedy ofChriJl ; Vandyke? 

 A fmall but aftoniihing picture. The body 

 is painted in the moft admirable ftile ; the 

 expre'flion exact, but great; the colouring 

 exquifite ; the group and general effect, fur- 

 prizingly fine. In a word, this piece is truly 

 capital. 



Virgin, by Ferrato ; fine. 



fioly Family. —Thck four by Carlo Marr at t, and 

 very fine, 



Virgin* 



