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Having brought my vifit in to this angle 

 of country to a conclufion, I mail end this 

 letter with a few remarks on thole points 

 of husbandry, in which this part of Eajl 

 Riding is particularly backward. 



In the fir ft place, I {hall obferve, that 

 their courfcs of crops and general manage- 

 ment of their arable land, are very faulty ; 

 and particularly fo in a country where 

 grafs land of any goodnefs is extremely 

 fcarce. Artificial grafs and roots for the 

 food of cattle, are of great profit, not only 

 by enabling the farmer to keep large flocks 

 of cattle both in fummer and winter, but 

 likewife by ameliorating and cleaning the 



arable 



Mr. Elkrkcr purpofes to throw down the 

 fences of the inclofures between the park to 

 the houfe, fo as to join it on one fide to the 

 garden, and in front to throw it around the 

 water-, taking in all the lawn and plantations. 

 The valley, which runs before the houfe to the 

 fonth, is to be floated with water," and will then 

 have the appearance of a very noble irregular 

 lake, winding both to the right and lett into a 

 wood to the length of a mile and half, and in 

 many places above ioo yards wide. The un- 

 derwood, in that part of the grove (to the eaft) 

 which ftretches down towards the valley will be 

 grubbed up, old garden walls thrown clown, 

 and all obftructions removed, fo that the lake 

 P 4 may 



