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 made the butter taftc. It kept a fortnight 

 perfectly good ; and the cabbages yielded 

 proportionally more butter from a given 

 quantity of milk, than from any other food. 



1764. 

 This year Mr. Smelt cultivated four acres 

 upon the fame foil, which he prepared for 

 as before. When the ridges were formed, 

 a furrow was cut by a plough four inches 

 deep, and fprinkled with rotten dung, by 

 women out of bafkets, at the rate of feven 

 loads per acre : After this the plough turns 

 a furrow on each fide the drill, and covers 

 the dung with a fmall ridge ; laftly a wooden 



;3'; t!)mO{ u. ; 



Venetian Schml. Two courtezans, a brown and 

 a fair woman ; the latter is very fine, the 

 attitude and the countenance pleafing; 

 and the drapery good : The cxpreflion 

 of the light and relief flrong. 



Horizonti. A large landfcape. A caflle on a 

 hill, with a river at the foot. Tlic trees 

 with the light behind them well done; 

 the attitudes of the figures very natural •, 

 and the goats well executed. 



Diilo. A f^crifice. The variety and attitudes 

 of the figures Very well imagined ; the 

 light between the trunks of the trees on 

 the right, lively, and gives a full relief : 

 1 he colours more natural than in the 

 other piece : Upon the Vvhole, a pleafing 

 pidlure, 



Laca 



