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Good grafs land letts in general from 2/. 

 to 3/. an acre, and is ufed moitly for dai- 

 rying; but the country, however, is chiefly 

 in tillage. An acre will fummer feed a 

 cow ; or keep feven fheep. They univer- 

 fally water their grafs fields whenever it can 

 be done, which they find the greater! im- 

 provement of all. Their breed of cattle is 

 the long horns. The product of a cow 

 they reckon 6/. or 6/. 10 j-. They ufed to 



woods, lawns, Hopes, &c. and a prodigioufly ex- 

 tenfive profpect over the country. Wore eft er, 

 Dudley, the Clee Hills, are a part of the fcene ; 

 the Wrekin, at forty miles, and, it is faid, Rad- 

 nor-tump, at eighty miles diftance. 



Following the path, you pafs a triangular wa- 

 ter, the meaning of which I do not underfland, 

 and. walk down under the fhade of oaks, by the 

 fide of a winding woody hollow, to the feat of 

 contemplation, 



Sedes Contemplationis. 

 Omnia Vanitas. 

 The view is only down into the hollow among the 

 trees. Next we came to the hermitage, which 

 looks down on a piece of water, in the hollow, 

 thickly fhaded with tall trees, over which is a fine 

 view of diftant country. This water is fomewhat 

 too regular. In the hermitage this inicription : 

 " And may, at laft, my weary age 

 " Find out the peaceful hermitage, 

 " The hairy gown, and moffy cell, 

 " Where I may fit, and rightly fpell 

 " Of every ftar that heaven doth fhew, 

 " And every herb that fips the dew, 

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