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only one ploughing, fows four bufhels and 

 an half, and reaps in return, about 45. For 

 turnips, his Lordlhip ftirs five times; always 

 hoes them twice, but finds it fomewhat 

 difficult to procure men that can hoe them, 

 in a perfectly neat and accurate manner ; the 

 mediam value of his crops, 5/. Ufes them 

 chiefly for flall-fecding oxen. 



His Lord/hip has been pleafed to inform 

 me by letter, ' that his turnips of 1769, 

 turned out very profitably. He weighed 

 one acre, drilled and hoed ; and their weight 



woods, as to give room for the imagination to 

 play, and picture an extent fuperior to the 

 reality. — In front, upon a rifing hill, is fituated 

 the farm-yard, with a molt elegant gothic fcreen 

 to it. 



From this hill, you look back on a very noble 

 fcene. To the left, the whole is bounded by a 

 range of planted hanging hills, which extend to 

 the woods in front, furrounding the caftle to the 

 diftant profped, in a mod pifturefque manner : 

 The hollow fcoops of lavvn are peculiarly beau- 

 tiful : To the right it has a fweep through the 

 valley, with a prodigioufly extenfive profpeJl 

 over it to Rofebury - toppifi^^ &c. &c. &:c. 

 Nothing can be more beautiful than this whole 

 view, which is compofed of the mod elegant 

 difpofition of ground imaginable ; the hanging 

 hills fpread with wood j the hollow fcoops of 

 grafs, fpacious lav/ns, and diflant profped 



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