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Tythes are generally taken in kind. 



Poor rates 35. to j\.s. in the pound; the 

 employment of the women and children 

 fpinning; all drink tea. 



The farmers carry their corn three or 

 four miles. 



Leafes are in general upon terms, from 

 feven to twenty-one years. 



the line of view to thefe objecls is through a thick 

 tall wood, which gives a folemn brownnefs to 

 the whole fcene, very noble. The infeription : 



" Viridantia Tempe, 

 " Tempe quae fylvas cingunt luper impendentes." 



Leaving this exquifite fpot, you turn through 

 a grove by feveral flight water-falls, and come 

 out not far from the houfe. 



Thefe grounds, upon the whole, cannot be 

 fufficiently praifed : The natural variety is great, 

 and the advantage of being fo nobly cloathed 

 with venerable oaks, peculiarly fortunate •, but 

 art has added frefh luftre to every feature of na- 

 ture, and created others which diiplay a preg- 

 nant invention, and a pure and correct tafte. 

 Waters that are trifling in themfelves, are thrown 

 into appearances that ftrike and delight the 

 mind, and exhibited in fuch an amazing variety, 

 that one would be tempted at firft to think the 

 fource vaftly more confiderable than it in reality 

 is. Let me further add, that the buildings have 

 an equal variety, are all in a moft juft tafte, and 

 pbeed with the utmoft judgment, both for com- 

 manding the moil beautiful fcenes, and alfo for 

 afTiftino; in forming them, themfelves. 



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