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tainly of his tafte, though not of his com- 

 pliance with fafhion *. 



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Eut the hufbandry of the Marquis of 

 Rockingham is much more worthy of at- 

 tention than any palace ; the effects which 

 have and muft continue to refult from it 

 are of the nobleft and moft truly national 

 kind : A fhort fketch of his Lordfhip's 

 operations, will convince you how much 

 an ex ten five tract of country is obliged to 

 this patriotic nobleman for introducing a 

 cultivation unknown before. 



Upon 



* Certain criticks (who have objected to thefc 

 fheets on account of the Ji'ile being di (ordered and 

 diffufe, although I apologized for that circumltance in 

 the preface, and pleaded the unavoidable neceflity of 

 writing by fits and Harts at inns, farm-houfes, &c.) 

 have quoted a part of this defcription of Wentwarth % 

 and then afTert, " That it is vilely and abfurdly fituated 

 in a bleak, clayey country, with a hill before the 

 principal front, that cuts off every profpecV in reply 

 to this, I will venture to alien, That the country 

 is not clayey: It might as well be called a Aoney 

 country; — the foil in all that neighbourhood is va- 

 rious, from light gravels to rich loams ; but neither in 

 fiiffhefs, dirt, or any other circumftance, can it be cal- 

 led a clayey one. As to the bleaknefs of a fituation 

 where a hill cuts off every profpeft, I do not perfedly 

 underftand it. But the faff is, the whole country is 

 cut intofmail inclofures, the hedges are as full of trees 

 as other inclofed countries, the woods are numerous, 

 and throughout the environs of Ifentw:rtb full of gFeai 



quantities 



