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buildings. — ^^The houfe alio is long, and a great part of it 

 being burnt down fome years fince by carelel'sners of 

 a glazier, his Lordfhip chofe to rebuild it in the fame 

 plan as the old, rather than have it irregular. The 

 beauty of this place ccnfifts chiefly of two things ; 

 ift, The wood behind it laid out into agreeable walks, 

 only rather too formal ; and 2dly, The fine romantic 

 profpecl in front ; which is bound by crags, and has 

 in the center the ruins of Byland [Bellabcindl Ahhy. 



But his Lordfliip's improvement of his park and 

 low grounds is very confiderable. He has employed 

 teams of oxen of a very unufual length, and ploug;hs 

 proportionally ftrong, with men fufiicient in number 

 to keep them in the ground, fo as to tear through every 

 obflacle, and reduce the moft unpromifing parts into 

 due culture, and then to raife upon them line plan- 

 tations. He rightly judged that ground, which had 

 produced fuch trees as thofe whofe roots he found, 

 muft be able to raife fuch again, when the foil was 

 properly opened and reduced. 



Nor was he content to ftop at the limits of his park. 

 He has extended his plantations very confiderably 

 beyond it on to warrens and moors. The foil pro- 

 duced ftones for a fence at a very fmall expence; and 

 he has now plantations as florifhing on that hitherto 

 ufelefs ground as on much richer. 



His ^ow ground he has drained, though I confefs, 

 not in fo perfed: a manner as J^ord Rockingham^ viz. 

 With wood which will certainly rot, inftead of ftone. 



It is impoflible for any one who loves his country, 

 %o pafs over thefe improvements, which lie all in a 

 fhain. without a very fenfible pleiafure.'- 



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