200 A Pedeftrian Excurfion through England and Wales. {OGobder 1, 
After dinner, we walked to Lozglete, in 
Wilthire; a heavy, dull, and taftelefs 
Incumbrance, every thing belonging to 
which is in hideous tafte, the Park except- 
ed; and even that is but fo-fo. The ca- 
nal is nothing better than a nafty ftagnant 
pool ; and the Aviary no longer contains 
any thing worthy of notice, But I forget 
that a great perfonage is reported to have 
thought, that this place was altogether a 
wery fixe thing. We returned to Froome, 
to {pend the evening with a friend, from 
whofe garden we had a view of the famous 
white horfe cut out on the fide of a hill. 
Sunday 9. Beckington, through which 
we next pafled, isa confiderable manufac- 
turing village, well built with"ftone. In 
it is a large boarding-fchool, the mafter 
of which was building himfelf a handfome 
new houfe. 
Rode is another large, but lefs handfome, 
village ; exhibiting many very mean cot- 
tages, and the appearance of much dirt 
and wretchednefs, In the manufactures 
here, many men, women, and children are 
employed. 
Farley, the next place we arrived at, is 
a little fcattered village, but well-built 
with ftone. Atthe entrance are fome good 
old houfcs, particularly one, in the fpacious 
garden of which arefpectableclerical-look- 
ing man was diligently employed in col- 
leéting rofe-leaves, probably for the medi- 
cinal purpofes of his good lady, the Ma- 
dam Bountiful of the village. The church 
is a plain, neat, little building. 
Farley bad once a caftle, the memory of 
which is {till preferved upon the map. Of 
this, a fmall fragment of the ruin, with 
the addition of much new work, is made 
into a farm-houfe. The other remains 
are parts of a very extenfive wall, with 
fragments of three or four towers, of one 
of which the fhell is tolerably entire, and 
finely vefled with Time’s venerable livery, 
‘the ivy; and a chapel, with a painted 
dormitory to the left, miferably out of re- 
pair. In this are fome fine monuments of 
the Hungerford family + one very ancient; 
another bearing date 1648: the efligies 
are cut in white marble, ina good ftile of 
fculpture. There.are alfo fome curious 
reliques ; the armour of the Hungerford 
family; and Oliver Cromweli’s faddle. In 
the vault are feveral old coffins, and fome 
curious mummies, the leaden cafes of 
which are molded to the forms and features 
of the refpective faces. 
Hence, by a foot-track,through acountry 
at once wild and fertile, we proceeded to 
Ivern (or Iford), which prefented a{cene 
of beauty and fertility ; the river Froome, 
here a wide and rapid ftream, and finely 
embowered, flowing through an anticue 
ftone bridge, between two hills, up one of 
which, by the road-fide, the village is* 
fcattered. At the front of this picture, 
juft beyond the bridge, are placed two 
handfome houfes, the refidences of Mr. 
Graysford and Mr. Weft. From hence 
(entering the county of Wilts) with little 
deviation from the courfe: of the Froome, 
a diverfified and fomewhat romantic track 
conducted us to Frefhford; the hills that 
rife from the borders of the ftream being 
on one fide finely wooded, and on the other 
fprinkled with hamlets and cottages, while 
the downs, with a range of ruins at the 
bafe, terminate the perfpedctive. 
Frefhford. We approached this winding 
village through a hay-field, whofe abun- 
dant crop did not appear much injured by 
the wetnels of the feafon. At the entrance 
is an apparently good and {pacious inn, 
built with ftone, but which the tafte either 
of the proprietor or the occupant has caufed 
to be painted, to give it the refemblance of 
flaring red brick. The fituation of this 
village is hilly and the buildings are ftrag- 
ling ; but the appearance is altogether 
pleafingly romantic, and it commands 
profpects of a fine country. 
We paffed the works of a canal then 
cutting from Newbury to Bath, te com- 
municate with the Coal-canal, whence the 
finuofities of the Froome conduéted us to 
Stoke, a romantic and beautiful little 
-village, {cattered trom the hill-top all the 
way down to the water-edge. 
We now take our final leave of Wilt- 
fhire, and, following no further the courfe 
of the river Froome, mount, by a fteep 
afcent, to Claverten Down, not without 
fome indication in the appearance of the 
manfions we paffed, of the elegance of that 
fine city we were about to approach; and 
of which, with all the luxuriant fcenery 
around, we had prefently a noble view 
from Prior Park. 
(To be continued. ) 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
REMARKS Of PROFESSOR BYGGE, of 
COPENHAGEN, om the NEW SYSTEM Gf . 
WEIGHTS aad MEASURES adopted in 
FRANCE. 
HE learned Profeffor Bygge, of Co- 
penhagen, was lately employed in a 
miffion to Paris, the exprefs object of 
which was to examine the merits of the . 
1ew French metrical fyftem, and the prac= 
ticability of its introduction into foreign 
countries, His; obfervations upon the 
various 
