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 value at 2/. 10 s. an acre; ufe them for 

 flieep. 



Clover they fow with harley or oats ; 

 mow it once, and get two tons of hay at an 



average. 



Tares they low for mowing green : they 

 feed horfes in the (table with them, and 

 tether bullocks on them; which fatten 

 greatly. 



Chalk is their principal manure ; they lay 

 forty-three horfe cart loads on an acre, 



general brilliancy gone. The figure of 

 a woman to the right moft unmeaning. 

 Ann. Carrache. The family of the Carrach\ re- 

 prefented in a butcher's (hop, and thofe 

 celebrated painters in butchers dreffes. 

 Annibal is weighing fome meat to a 

 Swift of the Cardinal of Bologna's guard. 

 Auguftine is (baking a nail, and trying 

 if it holds fait, that he may hang on it 

 a leg of mutton, which he holds in his 

 left hand. Gobbo is lifting up a calf to 

 hang it on a beam, and Ludovico (loops 

 down killing a (heep. The mother of 

 them is reprefented as a fervant maid 

 that comes to buy fome meat. The 

 likeneffes are traditionally faid to be 

 wonderful. — This, furely, is the mod 

 ftriking inftance of an odd and gro- 

 tefque tafte •, to tranfmit ones felr to 

 posterity in the moft odious of common 

 characters. Alexander was ibllicitous 

 to have the beauty of his peribn tranf- 

 mitted to future times, in the works of 



the 



