310 Colonel Filgate a spirited Improver. 



To Clyde Farm from this spot, is six miles : 

 the whole of the way presented an interesting 

 country. Colonel Filgate is a spirited improver, 

 and an extensive cultivator of green crops. 

 His loss by not hoeing his turnips is, however, 

 very apparent. It was the duty of a man who 

 had the shelter of a hut, to watch the turnips 

 and prevent depredations : it is extremely 

 vexatious to a farmer, though his loss may be 

 more imaginary than real, to see his turnips 

 pulled up and scattered about ; a far greater 

 loss is frequently sustained by his fences being 

 broken down, his field-gates left open, and 

 crops of all descriptions subjected to the en- 

 croachment of his own and his neighbours' 

 cattle. 



We passed the extensive domain of Lord 

 Louth : on the state of his Lordship's pastures, 

 or on the stock which we saw feeding upon them, 

 it is impossible to observe favorably. Great 

 pains have been taken to dot every field, by 

 transplanting trees of considerable size, with 

 such precision and regularity, that their ranks 

 appeared at first sight to be in imitation of a 

 light infantry manoeuvre : at present they add 

 no beauty to the appearance of the place. 



Two miles short of Mr. Fortescue's we crossed 



