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From R'uby towards Hull, the foil im- 

 proves in richnefs, great quantities of beans 

 arc fown in the open fields ; but I mould 

 not forget to remark, that the crops are all 

 over-run with weeds, to a greater degree 

 in general than I remember to have feen; 

 but when beans are never hoed, it is fur- 

 prizing there fhould ever be found a clean 



crop. 



mented ground ; a grafs-walk waves along the 

 banks, which is clofe fhaven, and kept in neat 

 order, and this is bounded by a thick plantation; 

 fo that the whole being in the ftile of a pleafure- 

 ground, no other plan of forming the water 

 would have had fo great an effect. The head at 

 the great end of the water appears at prefent 

 full in view from both fides; but Sir George de- 

 figns to give the corner oppofite to the hoi 

 fweeping wave around the new plantation, w 

 will take off the effect, and be a great i - 

 provement-, when the plantations get up, the 

 other end will be quite hid, and the whole have 

 no other appearance than that of ornamented 

 nature. Adjoining are many new plantati 

 fketched with much tafte, with zig-zag walks 

 through them in an agreeable ftile ; a paddock is 

 paling in around the whole, which will be well 

 iiirrounded with wood. Befides thefe improve- 

 ments, here are numerous and complete office", 

 both for the houie and farm, newly built or* a 

 :-coloured hme-ftone, dug almoft on the 

 fpot. The following eftimate of walling with 

 this (lone, Sir George was fo kind as to give me; 



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