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 and faggots, and then the moulds. The 

 coft of^thefe drains is is. the perch of 

 eight yards. The improvement is ex- 

 tremely great ; they make land of $s. an 

 acre worth 30 s. at once. 



They Hack their hay at home ; and fome 

 few have got into the way of chopping 

 their flubbles ; convinced not only of the 

 importance of littering cattle well, but alfo 

 of railing large quantities of manure. 



fcene is pkafing. From hence the path winds 

 through a fine wood of oaks, in which is a 

 bench, by the fide of a trickling rill, with this 

 infcription : 



Inter cuncta leges, et per cun&abere doclos, 

 Qua ratione queas traducere leniter aevum, 

 Quid minuatcuras, quid tetibi reddat amicum, 

 Quid puretranquillet, honos an dulce lucellum, 

 An fee return iter, et fallentis femita vitae. 

 Which lines are well fuited to the fequeftred re- 

 tired fpot in which they are placed. The path 

 then leads by the ftream, and under the trees, to 

 a fine open lawn inclofed by wood j at one end 

 an urn inscribed to Pope : 



Alexandro Pope, 



Poetarum Anglicanorum elegantimmo, dulcifTi- 



moque, 



Vitiorum caftigatori acerrimo, 



Sapiential doctori fuaviffimo. 



Sacra efto. 



1744. 

 PafTing two benches, and a flight gum of wa-^ 

 ter, you rife to the ruined caftle •, from the top of 

 which is a very beautiful view, down upon the 



woods 3 



