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They were of several sorts, but cheifly whitings and Dories, 
very plainly to be distinguishd. They were so much 
impregnated with Vitriolick Salt that they could not be 
preservd. Several that M'" Stert carefully brought home 
wasted in Less than 12 hours. 
From hence we returnd to dine at Critchill. The house 
there is pretty good, much more chearfully situate than the 
other ; a great deal of the best Planted Oak. I have seen 
one of them, nine feet in circumference, carrying up, I dare 
^ay, fifty feet of Boll, M'' Stert keeps here several kinds 
of Birds and animals, particularly a Sanguin which she has 
had a year. It lives constantly in a small Deal box filld 
with wool and hay, had no particular care taken of it. 
Here is also a favourite of a very extrordinary nature — 
a Bull, the finest I have seen. He was bred in Lincolnshire, 
and tho only 4 years old and very lean, the Butcher 
Guessed his weight to be between 70 and 80 score. He 
is a well-made beast and beautifully spotted. M'" Stert 
always uses him to draw by himself, for he will not do it 
with any other Beast, but singly will do as much work and 
draw as large a weight as two or three horses. 
2L — This morn rains very hard, venture however out 
upon the downs to Observe the Long Barrow between the 
liouse and turnpike road in the way to Blanford : Find it 
like the first I examind, only Larger, its greatest lengh 
being about 100 paces, its breadth 20, bearings N.W. 
b N. and S.E. b S : On the side of it one and only one 
plant of Othonna integrifolia, which is very scarce in this 
countrey, as I have only found it on this and one other 
JBarrow. 
I have now seen three of these long Barrows all within a 
-circle of about 2 miles in diameter. What the occasion of 
making them in that shape is difficult to guess. Possibly 
