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LETTER VIII. 



TH E improvements carrying oil 

 around Kirkleathaniy the feat of 

 Charles Turner^ Efq; are luch as merit a 

 particular attention. When he came to his 

 eftate, lie found the manfion fuch as by no 

 means fatisfied him ; he converted it into 

 the houfe deicribed below '^, 



The roads leading every way to it were 

 execrably bad : thofe parts now unmended 

 prove it fufficiently : He exerted himfelf 

 with the utiTioft Ipirit to remedy this moft 

 difagrceable of all evils : About his own 

 houfe he makes them himfelf, and through- 

 out the reft of Cleveland vigoroufly puihed 

 a very confiderable fubfcription, to render 

 them all good without the afliftance of turn- 

 pikes ; and it fliould be remarked, that fuch 

 parts of the road betvvcen Stokejley and Kirk- 



* Kirkkclh.^.m^ near GijJ'crough, you would 

 think very well worth viewing, though not one 

 of the magnificenty^^w houfes commonly hunted 

 out by travellers. Thole who would wifh 

 to fee an excellent living houfe, in which the 

 agreeable part of convenience is confulted, without 

 deilroying the fcale of a large family, will be 

 pleafed with tliis feat, which, I mud be allowed 



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