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BOOK II 



PART II. 



OF THE 



PRESERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF 

 COUNTRY RESIDENCES. 



It may be premised here, that in treating this subject I do 

 not mean to include the management of landed property in 

 general; excepting wood. This material, as it is in every 

 part of an estate not only valuable but highly beautiful, whe- 

 ther as standing groves or woods of timber, or young planta- 

 tions, I propose to come under the same manager as the tim- 

 ber of that part of an estate which surrounds the mansion. 

 Neither do I consider it necessary to offer any thing respecting 

 the general management of a household, or of game, fishery, 

 &c. nor to interfere with the duties of land-stewards : all these 



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