Cheshunt Cottage. 



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View from the Chinese Temple. 



tion wherever there is any chance of boys or idle persons 

 getting into the rabbit-house. The rabbits are fed on garden 

 vegetables and bran, barley, oatmeal, and hay, making fre- 

 quent changes ; the vegetables being gathered three or four 

 days before being used, and laid in a heap to sweat, in order 

 to deprive them of a portion of their moisture. Salt is also 

 given occasionally with the bran. Cleanliness, and frequent 

 change of food, have now, for five years, kept the rabbits in 

 constant health. It ought never to be forgotten, that atten- 

 tion to the above rules, in partially drying green succulent 

 vegetables, is essential to the thriving of rabbits kept in 

 hutches ; and, hence, in London and other large towns, 

 instead of fresh vegetables, they are fed with clover-hay. 

 One of the kinds of rabbit bred at Mr. Harrison's is the 

 hare rabbit, mentioned in the Encyclopaedia of Agriculture, 

 $ 7355., the flesh of which resembles that of the hare, in quan- 

 tity and flavour. Mr. Pratt has fed rabbits here, which, when 

 killed, weighed 1 1 lbs. We can testify to their excellence 

 when cooked. 



67, Coach-house, with stairs to hay-loft. 68, Stable. 



69, Mill-house, containing mills for bruising corn for poultry, a 

 portable flour mill, a lathe, and grinding-machine for sharpen- 

 ing garden instruments and similar articles. In the Angel 

 Inn in Oxford, some years ago, a lathe of this sort was used 

 for cleaning shoes, the brushes being fixed to the circum- 



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