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ing and ploughing to be converted at oiK:e 

 into good farms. Even the blackefl parts are 

 evidently deep enough to afFord, if drained 

 where wet, a good depth of foil undoubt- 

 edly profitable for many articles of culture. 

 The common reply, that fuch improvements 

 will not anfwer the expence, can proceed 

 from nothing but vulgar prejudices, or the 

 refult of a few ill-judged trials : If land is 

 found improper for the production of the 



Likewife a very good portrait of bifnop Wil- 

 liams, The chimney-piece is of white and Siena 

 marble ; with doric pillars, an inftance of the 

 bad effed: of pillars without bafes even of that 

 order. The pannels of the room are painted in 

 frefco. 



In the doric room, the chimney-piece is of 

 Sicilian pfper ; here are. 

 Lot and his Daughters \ in a dark ftile, but 



good expreiTion. 

 Bacchus offering; marri2.ee to Ariadne. 

 Over the chimney another, i he cattle, figures, 

 light, and trees v/ell done. 



In the library, are feveral buils, and fmall 

 ftatues •, a Venus of Medicis in bronze, and over 

 the chimney a landfcape-, the colouring of which 

 is unnatural, but it has an agreeable glow, and 

 the light is good. 



In the drawing-room, the coUecftion of drawings 

 is very fine ; among others, I remarked 



Herctiks^ 



