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30 s. per acre. They raife fometimes fix 

 quarters per acre of wheat, and fix, and 

 even feven of barley, which are immenfe 

 crops upon any land, but efpecially in 

 open fields that do not admit of the moft 

 beneficial treatment *. 



But 



* Beverley is a very pretty town, well and regu- 

 larly built, very clean, and well paved; the ftreets 

 broad and handfome. The Minfter, for Gothic 

 architecture, is a very light and beautiful build- 1 

 ing, and kept in good repair; but its modern 

 decorators appear to have had ideas of neither 

 beauty nor propriety •, for, with true tafte, they 

 have given the venerable pile juft, fuch an en- 

 trance as you would imagine for a cakehoufe ; a 

 new-fajhioned iron rail, and gate handfomely 

 adorned with gilding, and a modern (tone wall 

 with two urns of white ftone, which, with a 

 few reliefs cut on them, would do tolerably well 

 for the decoration of a fhrubbery. But thefe 

 gentlemen, not content with this ftroke of 

 genuine propriety, have carried their Grecian 

 ideas into the very choir of a Gothic cathedral. 

 At the entrance, under the organ, they have 

 raifed fome half a dozen (if 1 recollect right) 

 Ionic pillars and pilafters ; and built an altar- 

 piece in the ftile of, I know not what. It is 

 an imperium in mperio\ the bird of Jove cer- 

 tainly flutters her lofty wings to command the 

 attention of the fpectator, and call it off from 

 the barbarifrri of Goths and Vandals to fix curious 

 fluted Corinthian pillars, raifed merely to fupport 

 the pedeital whereon appears the king of birds. 



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