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 v/hich cofr. 4/. They dig often twenty 

 yards deep before they come to it : It is of 

 an hard nature, but lafts good for twelve 

 years : they find it anfwers belt on cold clay 

 foils. 



Rags they have from London at 5 s. 6 d, 

 the hundred weight ; eight hundred are fuf- 

 ficient for an acre ; they lad: for about three 

 or four years, and are heft on gravelly foils. 



Malt-dull they alfo ufe ; lay fix or eight 

 facks on an acre, at 3^. 6d. a fack. 



the beft artifts; what would he have 

 thought of a painter that threw him into 

 the attitude of killing a fheep ? Here 

 is, however, great ftrength and variety 

 of expreffion in this phantaftic picture, 



Dominichino. A landfcape. Dark and unpleafing, 

 but the attitudes of the figures are very 

 fpirited. 



Furino. A woman reprefenting Simplicity, 

 with a dove in her hand. Dark -, 

 nothing pleaiiftg. 



Bcidaloccbi. The Good Samaritan. Very ftrong 

 and fpirited drawing ; well fore-i'hort- 

 ened ; colours gone. 



Ricci. Our Lady with her Babe-, the figures 



about two feet high. A very fine atti- 

 tude ; the child as fpirited as the fub- 

 ject will admit. The colouring was 

 good, but almoft gone. 



Raphael A youth's head fmaller than the life; 

 Very formal. 



. ,'vl The Nativity. The colouring of 



thii picture k exceedingly fine. The 



pofture 



