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^ifunder, and 22 inches from plant to plant. 

 They were horfe-hced four times, befides 

 hand-hoeing and hand-weeding. They were 

 begun in November^ and lail:ed till the end 

 of March ; weighed, upon an average, 7 lb» 

 each. They wintered three fteers, feverj 

 milch cows, and 20 fheep. The fleers 

 (which were of 60 Hone) eat 1 2 flone a day ; 

 had them in a grafs field. 



The cows eat feven ftone a day. They 

 never milked better in the height of the 

 fummer ; the butter was perfedly good, and 

 kept exceedingly well : But this depended 

 upon their eating no decayed leaves ; which 



as this figure is executed in fome refpeds, 

 in others it is equally faulty -, it is of no 

 exprefTion, and the attitude moft un- 

 meaning. The figures by the afs, are 

 fomewhat expreflive, but in nothing re- 

 lative to the fubjecl of the pifture ^ indeed 

 the whol:; group of the als and the three 

 fhepherds is ftrangely introduced, having 

 fcarcely any thing to do with the bufinels 

 of the piece. The afs's head is furp- iz- 



ingly hnifhed. The landfcape is not 



pleafing. 



' Upon the whole, the fpirit and relief 

 of the figures, with the ftrength of the 

 colouring, render it a moil noble picture •, 

 and it is not done in the coarfe blotching 

 flile, fo common to the pieces which pafs 

 Vinper the nam.e of BaJJan. 



Venetian 



