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LETTER IV. 



T Risby, near this town, the feat of 

 my very excellent friend, E. M. El- 

 lerker-i Efq; I fixed my quarters fome time, 

 and took the opportunity of viewing the 

 adjacent country*. 



From 



* In the way to Cave, the feat of Sir George 

 Montgomery Metham, from the hills is a very- 

 fine view of the river Humber, with the Trent 

 falling into it on one fide, and the Oufe on the 

 other ; the high grounds of Lincohiftnre heigh- 

 tening the profpect greatly. Sir George allured 

 me, that when he came to his eftate, he found 

 his houfe in the middle of what deierved the 

 name of a bog-, the ground all very flat, the 

 offices clofe to every window of the manfion, 

 and all in the midft of an open country, with 

 not an acorn planted. His defigns are not yet 

 completed j but what is done, gives a very 

 plealing fpecimen of judgment and tafle. Be- 

 hind the houfe is an agreeable doping fall, 

 down to a very fine irregular fheet of water, 

 the banks of which are waved in tafte, with 

 a juft medium between the flight trivial bend, 

 (which looks like an old ftreight line turn- 

 ed into a waved one) and the ftrong, bold, 

 and fudden indentures which mould ever be 

 furrounded with natural woods, or wild unorna- 



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