BEISTOL, ETC., IN MAY AND JUNE, 1767. 
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lie is so remarkable for Drawing lie does not succeed 
quite so well in Gardening, at Least in our opinions. 
His Cascade however seems to be a very good one as it 
falls down about thirty feet of natural rock, not at all 
assisted by art. We were unfortunate in not being able 
to see it Play as the water was turnd off that morning 
for some repairs. There is also a small Knowl where M'" 
Bamfeild means to build a summer house from which the 
Prospect is very pleasant, but upon the whole the Distant 
view is hardly varied enough. 
2. — This morn walk'd out to see the town of Taunton, 
find it a Large town situate on a small [river] navigable for 
barges quite up to the town. In the Churches [sic] v/as no- 
thing remarkable, but some Dates, which we could not Eead, 
: on the other 
particularly on one side the door j Ann : Dom 
these figures j 1608 . In the Church on a grave stone [date 
given not readable]. Prom hence proceeded to Burton Pyn- 
sent in our way back to Bristol : find it situate on the 
edge of a hill commanding a prodigiously extensive prospect, 
but in my opinion Bather too near Sedge moor, containing 
1000 or 1500 acres of as flat ground as any in Lincolnshire 
v/hich is immediately below him, at the distance of half a 
mile or less. The house L*^ Chatham has done a great deal 
to, considering his Lordship has not been more than two 
years in Possession. He has built several rooms, some very 
good ones, but has shewn that his Buildings in Brick are 
not more durable than in Administrations, as he has already 
iound it necessary to pull dov/n and alter what he himself 
set up. He has just finishd a Column in memory of S'' W" 
It is of the Dorick order, about 200 feet in hight. It is 
very well situated as it is seen from and commands an 
immense tract of countrey. On the top is a small Building 
