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But as I fhall have the pleafure of re- 

 ading fome days in this neighbourhood, I 

 fhall here make a paufe in my journal, by 

 alluring you how much I am, &c. 



You will not quickly meet with a more capital 

 piece of abfurdity -, and yet (if you could fup- 

 pole a ufe for it) this altar-piece, as high as 

 the cornice of the pillars, has fomething light 

 and well proportioned in it, but rendered heavy 

 and unpleafing by the eagle's pedeftal. Clole 

 adjoining is a monument in memory of one of 

 the Percy's, near 700 years old, adorned with a 

 profufion of carving in ftone, very light and 

 airy. Behind the altar-piece is a modern one, 

 by Scbeemaker, (Sir Michael Wharton's) which is 

 in a heavy unpleafing tafte. 



LETTER 



