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PROVISIONS, &c. 



Cheefe, - ^d.perlb. Mutton, - 34. d. 

 Butter, - 4 Veal, - 34- 



Beef. - 4 Candles, - 7 



Labourer's houfe rent, 19 s. 



Their firing, 30 s. 



LABOUR. 



In harveft, 6 s. a week and board. 

 In hay-time, 1 s. 6 d. a day. 

 Reaping per acre, 5 s. 

 Mowing corn, 1 s. 

 Threfhing wheat, is. 6 d. 



fpring corn, is. 6d. 



From 



pointing out as it were an approach to the dwel- 

 ling. In the vale before the houfe is a noble 

 piece of water, with two pretty yachts upon it, 

 the banks are boldly indented with creeks in a 

 Jincftile, and the breadth and length confider- 

 able, but two circumftances are much wanted to 

 render it complete ; the principal end of it ap- 

 pears in full view, inftead of being loft behind a 

 hill or a plantation which this might eafily be, 

 and would add infinitely to its beauty and mag- 

 nificence, for the conclujlon of a water being feen, 

 is painful at the very firft view: The other point 

 is, the break in the water by the road, for in fact it 

 is two lakes, and one being higher than the 

 other, a real bridge cannot be thrown over ; at 

 prelent it is a cauieway •, but might it very eafily 

 be made to appear fo like a bridge, as to deceive 



even 



