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But a new invention is coming in very 

 faff, which is the life of double ploughs ; 

 which with only the addition of one horfe, 

 do double the work, by turning two fur- 

 rows at once : It is no gimcrackery bufi- 

 nefs, but fo folid and ftrong a machine that 

 the common farmers approve it, and ac- 

 cordingly fome hundreds of them are made. 



fine dell arched with wood, and a great variety of 

 water in a hollow at your feet. To the right, 

 clofe to you, a fpring gufhes out of the ground 

 on rock work, and falls into aftream in the hol- 

 low. Further on another rill murmurs over 

 broken rocks, and uniting with the fame (beam, 

 it falls again, and winds away moft beautifully 

 among the wood. Upon the feat is this infcrip- 

 tion : 

 " Hie gelidi fontes, hie mollia prata Lycori ; 

 " Jiic nemus : hie ipfo tecum coniumere asvo." 

 Crofling the dell, you rife to another feat, the 

 ftream winding in the hollow beneath ; and the 

 whole under the made of large oaks : To the 

 right you catch an urn, and look back upon the 

 ionic rotunda. Turning to the left, and coming 

 to the urn, you find it inferibed as follows : 

 To the Memory of 

 William Shenstone, Efq; 

 In whofe Verfes 

 Were all the natural Graces, 

 And in whofe Manners 

 Was all the amiable Simplicity 

 Of paftoral Poetry, 

 With the fweet Tendernefs 

 Of the Elegiac. 



U 3 Pafling 



