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50 acres they reckon a large farm ; as that 

 is the cafe, it is no wonder it lets no higher, 

 for foils of this nature require improvement, 

 and none but large farms ever meet with 

 that. Their courie is, 



I. Fallow — 2. Wheat — 3. Oats. 



Their chief fubfiftence is keeping fhecp 

 on the moors ; their flocks rife from 300 

 to 1000 ; the profit of which they reckon 

 at 10 J. a head. 



In the great room, 35 fquare by 25 high, are 

 the following, among other pidlures. 

 Sufanna and the Elders. Fine ; but no exprefliGn 



in her countenance. 

 hot and his Daughters. In a very dark ftile. 

 JL,andfcape ; the flight into Egypt. Good. 

 King Charles on horfe-back ; the fame as thofe 



faid to be by Vandyke^ and the horfe by 



JVooton. 

 I fhould remark, that tliis room opens on to 

 a fmall gallery, which has w]ndo\vs into the 

 riding-houfe, and as that comm.unicates imme- 

 diately with four or five itablcs, I fliould fuppofe, 

 that when they are well ftocked with horfes in 

 hot weather, it would be eafy enough to fmell, 

 without being told that thefe two rooms (the 

 beft in the houfe) are built over the apartments 

 of the Hiihnhnms. 



They 



