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single trees, because this clumping is a cheap mode ; and that the second 

 excuse proceeds also from a false economy. Young trees with trunks 

 of 3 or 4 in. diameter can always be spared out of young plantations; and 

 if a gentleman has not such plantations on bis own estate, he may al- 

 ways purchase them at a fair price of some neighbour who has such plant- 

 ations to thin. If he cannot purchase them at a fair price, it will always be 

 cheaper and better for him to purchase them at an extra-price than to grow 

 them for himself in clumps. 



The Inn at Scarthing Moor, and the fields and hedges in its neigh- 

 bourhood, are greatly improved since we saw them in 1811, not long 

 after the enclosure of the moor; the landlord has a large farm and keeps 

 forty servants. The hedges, corn fields, cottages, and gardens, and the 

 bustle of the grand north road, seemed to give this moor all the life and 

 interest of the road between Hounslow and Windsor. 



Scarthing Moor to Gainsborough, Oct. 3. — There is such a thing as the pre- 

 paration of the mind for the first impressions expected to be received from 

 a person and a place never before seen, and not known by description. In 

 general, tolerably correct ideas may be formed of one individual, relatively 

 to others of his time and rank, from the handwriting and style of his letters; 

 and some idea of the style of a country seat, from the character of the 

 country in which it is situated. Expected to find a flat place from the 

 name of the county, but found it an elevatedsituation, commanding exten- 

 sive prospects on three sides. The property is of considerable extent, the 

 soil among the best in Lincolnshire ; the farms of from 200 to 500 acres in 

 extent, and some of the best farmeries we have seen are constructing on 

 them ; the cattle stalls are contrived for feeding with oilcake, and each 

 ox has a stone trough or manger before it for its oilcake, chaff, or roots, 

 and a smaller one at one side self-supplied with water. There is one 

 of the oldest manor houses on this estate to be found any where in England. 

 (^g. 150.) The oldest part is framed with oak, and filled in with brick- 



work ; the oak is in complete preservation; the interior contains one apart- 

 ment of spacious dimensions with the floor of plaster, the walls wainscoted, 



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