t 77 3 

 in which it can be procured : an acre of 

 food in dpril is worth five acres in Nir* 

 *v ember. 



Returning to Stamford, I took the road to 

 Grimfihorpe ; the country moftly open, 

 and the roads execrably bad ; about little 

 Bytc?i, their hufbandry is but indifferent, 

 however their foil is the lame ; it is clay 

 and gravelly loam ; farms run from 40 /. 



to 



Carlo Marrat. Our Saviour and the Samaritan 



Woman ; fine. 

 Celefli. Adam and Eve lamenting over the dead 



body of Abel ; very fine. 

 Guido. The Per/tan Sybil; prodigioufly fine •, the 



colouring and expreilion wonderfully great. 

 Jordanus. Ifaac bleffing Jacob ; amazingly fine. 



The dying expreflion in Ifaac 's face, and that 



of the whole piece, very capital. 

 Carlo Marratt. Virgin with, the dead body of 



Chrift ; noble. 

 Salutation. The colouring fine ; but the clear 



obfeure appears to me very faulty. 

 Jordanus. Tobit ; exquifite. 

 Carlo Marrat t. Magdalen ; inimitable. 

 Titian. Virgin and Child; the colouring a crood 



deal gone off. 

 Girendo de la Nocle. The reconciliation of St. 



Peter and St. Paul; the heads and hands verv 

 fine. ; 



Ludovico Carrache. Virgin, Chrifi, and John -, 



extremely fine. 

 Caflo Marratt. Magdalen. 

 In another drawing-room, 30 by 27, is a moft 

 nobis 



