Bs 
2] 
Sheep generally lamb about Chriftmas, 
; and with good management will have 
Eambs twice a year. Cattle are of the 
€emmon forts; farmers -horfes, befides 
ether heavy, expenfive, and unneceflary 
- t¥apping,, are 
bells, when uled in carts or waggons.— 
“En this day’s journey I paffed {everal 
artificial mounts, like the barrows in the 
porth of England; they have probably 
Seen the burial-places of fome great war- 
riers, but I did not hear that any of their 
eontents have been examined.—Blandford 
affords refidence to about zooo inhabi- 
fants; itis a pretty, well-built market- 
tewn; the fireets are clean, and. fufh- 
eiently wide; and-the fituation is in a 
fertile and extremely pleafant country: 
Zn this town the manufacture -of fhirt- 
battons is thé principal employ of the 
female inhabitants. All the country 
round for many miles has a ‘cheerful 
afpect; level vales; gently rifing hills; 
pieces of woodland; a mixture of downs 
and corn and pafture fields; ~ beautiful 
feats, parks, and- gardens; well-built 
_€ottages, and large cyder-orchards, are 
sts moft prominent features. Farms are 
from 40 to 200]. a year: rent of land in 
country parifhes about ros. or 32s. per 
acre, and near the town 30s. per acre. 
c 
“Ee number of fmall farms is very rapidly 

YY alpolia Way 
" about twenty years ago, confifted o 
whimfically hung with’ 








decreafing in this neighbourhoa d 
itance of which is rather remar 
the village of Dufwefton: that 
farms, and is how in the oceupatien 
two farmers. . + | 
October 20, I parted with my, friends = 
at Blandford with mutual regret, and pro= 
ceeded to Fraome in Somerfetihiré, by 
way of Shaitfbury, 32 miles. Fre 
Blandford to Shaftfbury the road 
over a praia of open downs; the 
foil is light, and full of chalk and flint. 
Shaftfbury is a fmall market town, 2 
bears the marks of antiquity. ; 
of this diftriét is tolerably level, the foi 
generally light, and the fields fmail, and ~ 
+ 


aa WAR 
OLIANA, | 
 @R, BONS MOTS, AFOPHTHEGMS, OBSERVATIONS ON LIFE AND LITERA- 
TURE, WITH EXTRACTS FROM ORIGINAL LETTERS, OF THE LATE 
HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. 
NUMBER Vii. 
#,.* This Article is communicated by a Litcrary Gentleman, for many years in habits of intimacy 
with Mr. WaLPore. 
Ie is partly draws up from a colle&tion ef Bous-Mots, &c. in bis own 
band-writing ; partly from Anecdotes coritten down after long Converfation with him, in which 
Be would, frem four o Clack in- the Afternoon, till tavo ia the Morning, difplay thofe tecafures of 
Anecdote with which his Rank, Wit, and O portunities, 
had replenifbed bis Memory; and partly 
So from Original Letters to the Compiler, on fubjecis of Tafte and Literature. 

Cl. LORD CHESTERFIELD. 
 FEVHE reafon why Lord Chefterfeld 
JE could not fucceed at court was this. 
After he returned from his embafly at the 
‘Hague, he-chanced to engage in play at 
court one night;-and won rscol. Not 
home) ‘at. fe 
fate an hour, he went to the apartment of 
the Countefs of Suffolk, the reya 
u es We 
a 
- = 

CH. COUNTESS OF SUFFOLK. 
‘Fhis Countefs of Suffolk had married 
Mr. Howard; and they were fo poor, 
that they took a refolution of going to 
Hanover, before the death of Queen Ann, 
in order ‘ey their court to the future> 
royal family. Such was their poverty, 
that having invited fome friends to dinner, 
and being difappointed of a fmall remit= 
tance, fhe was forced to fell her hair to 
furniih the entertainment, Long wigs 
~ were then in fafhion ; and her ‘hair, being 
fine, long, and fair, produced twenty. 
pounds. .  Sphaeitnads 
Sir Robert Walpole never paid’ ang 
* cours - 
: 
. 
