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Draining is pretty well underflood here, 

 and that chiefly owing to the excellent ex- 

 ample of Lcrd Littleton, who ordered many 

 drains to be dug of various depths, and three 

 or four inches wide at bottom ; the method 

 ufed in filling them on grafs land (where 

 they were chiefly made) was to take the firft 

 fpit of turfs, and wedge them into the 

 drains, and then throw in the moulds, 

 without ftone, wood, or any thing ; and 



Ditto. Countefs of Bedford, 



Lely. Mifs Brown. 



Ditto. Lord Bronncker. 



The Dining-room, thirty-three by twenty-fix. 

 Here are, 

 Ziiccharelli. Landfcape •, a waterfall, and bridge ; 



pleafing. 

 Ditto. Another ; water, and a boat. Ditto. 



Wilfon. Landfcape-, ditto. 



But what at Hagley, are mod worthy of notice, 

 are the grounds, which Lord Littleton has dif- 

 pofed with the utmolt tafte. 



The walk from the houfe leads through a wood, 

 by the fide of a purling ftream, which meanders 

 over grafs from out a dark hollow •, you pafs a 

 gum of water, which fails into it, and winding 

 higher up the hill, turn by the fide of another 

 brook ; which gurgles through a rocky hollow : 

 Another gulhing fall, over bits of rock, attracts 

 your notice ; which pafiing, you come to the 

 Prince of Wales'^ ftatue. This fpot commands a 

 fine view of the diftant country over the houle. 



Winding from hence through the wood, you 

 look to the left upon diftant grounds, until you 



come 



