330 AN ACCOUNT OP DOG KENNELS. 



parcels of land, diflln6lly divided into the re- 

 quired proportions of meadow and arable, for the 

 cultivation of fuch hay and corn of every kind as 

 may be required upon the premifes. To thefe 

 accumulated conveniences may be added the va- 

 rious £fh ponds, which, with the live flock of 

 every kind produced upon the premifes, may be 

 faid to conftitute an aggregate of the moil luxu- 

 rious cjatification within a fenced circle of ferti- 

 lity, tv/o miles in circumference, though fur- 

 rounded by one of the moit harreyi fpots in the 

 univcrfe, producing only fuel for the inhabitants 

 of that and diflant pariflies, and heaih for hrooviSj 

 by manufa6luring v/hich moll of the neighbour- 

 ing indigents obtain a livelihood. To this dif- 

 in&^ and its furrounding hills, his Majcfly's 

 lierd of red deer appertain ; here they breed, and 

 being conflantly fed (like the cattle more do- 

 mefticate) in the feverity of the winter feafon, 

 they conlider it tlieir home, and become (to thofo 

 they are accuflonied to fee) much lefs ferocious^ 

 and more aflbciate, than can well bp fuppofed of 

 an animal fo naturally wild, and fo little fubje6^ 

 to a perfonal furvey from human viiitants. 



The prefent relident has given a life and fpirit 

 to the fcene that it never polTeiTed during the offi- 

 cial career of either of the two laft of his prede» 

 ccflbrs, and will fccure to Lord Sandwich the re- 

 fpect of every fportfman in the kingdom. 



DUKE 



