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 The foil about Ri/by is generally a pretty 

 ftrong loam from four to eight inches deep, 

 and then a vaft ftratum of chalk ftone. In 

 fome fields the chalk ftone is covered with 

 a furface of clay. The farms are in gene- 

 ral fmall, they rife from 10/. a year to 

 150 /. but are generally from 50 /. to 100 /. 

 In the open fields which are much more 



and three ranges of boxes and galleries ; but the 

 baluftrade fronts of the boxes being lead co- 

 loured, have not a good effect •, they had better 

 have been pannelled, unlefs carved and guilt ; 

 the ftage has not half a fufficiency of extent in 

 front of the houfe. 



3. The affembly-room is handfome and well 

 contrived ; it is 50 by 27 and 25 high ; the 

 card-room (32 by 20) is parallel with it, fo that 

 at the entrance you fee through the doors of 

 each, upon a large handfome pier-*glafs at the 

 further fide of the latter, catching the principal 

 glafs luftres in a proper manner : Of thefe there 

 are eight in the affembly-room, and one in the 

 card-room. The former of thefe is walled with 

 a moil difagreeable red clouded coloured ftone, 

 which deftroys the beauty of the room : It is 

 ornamented with Ionic pilailers. The mufic 

 gallery is a coved recefs on one fide, the front 

 of which being parallel with the fide of the 

 room, the proportions are not damaged by it, 

 nor has it that bad effect, which we always ob- 

 lerve in projecting galleries of every kind. 



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