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 with valued the folding at 3^/. a night per 

 fcore; others at \d. and 6d. Some afterted 

 it was a cheaper manure at 8 d. than many 

 ufed in that country. They give them 

 ftraw till lambing, then hay and turneps. 

 The average fleece 6 lb. 



In their tillage they reckon five horfes 

 neceflary for an hundred acres of arable 

 clay land, and three for as much light land. 

 In the firft they ufe five in a plough, in the 

 latter only two. In the light foils they do 



Raphael. The infant Jefus and St. John em- 

 bracing. Spirited. The countenance 

 of him to the left good. 



Ditto. Three heads in water colours. In 



a ftrong expreflive ftile of drawing; 

 but unpleafing. 



Carpacio. St. Catharine. The attitude natural ; 

 but the drapery in a bad tafte, and the 

 colours faint. 



Andrea del Sarto. Our Lady with her Babe, and 

 St. John : Her attitude fine, and her 

 countenance exquifite : The boy fpi- 

 rited. 



Holbein. A father and his two children pray- 

 ing. A nothing. 



Raphael. The Nativity, containing eighteen 

 figures, two feet high. Her pofture 

 neither natural nor graceful ; and the 

 colours are difagreeable : The group 

 is pretty good, and the figure of the old 

 man fitting a fine one. It is the mere 

 rubbifh of names to call this an " afto- 

 nifhing performance." 

 Vol. III. Z Paul 



