The Farmer's Tour Through the East of England Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: planting, fecure the certain pofleflion of any fum that may in future be wanted. Mr. Mellijh has, befides thefe various improvements, executed other undertakings, which fhew an activity not often exceeded. He has made ten miles of road, at his own expense, and a river four miks long, and ten yards wide, as a drainage to a large extent of low land, in the center of his eftate, capable of being made as fine meadow as any in England. He has alfo built feveral farm-houfes, and above thirty cottiiges, all in the moft fubftantial manner, of brick and tile: works of the nobleft tendency, that will ever carry their own eulogy ! This gentleman has added a very magnificent apartment to his houfe, (before an exceeding good one) awithdrawing-roorh, 40 feet long, 2 broad, and 18 high, with a circular bow of 21 feet fpan. The proportion very agreeable. The chimney-piece elegant ; Ionic pillars of Egyptian granate, fluted with ftripes of white marble, fupport the frieze, in which is a tablet, an ancient facrifice. The furniture is extremely rich the chairs and carpet crimfon velvet, embroidered rith yellow filk. From the windows of mod of the rooms you command a fine water, which winds through the lawn for a mile and half j the breadth from 50 to 70 yards. He has alfo built a large and handfbme pile of ftabling,and ornamented his eftate with 290 acres of thriving plantations. LETTER VII. FROMB/K/andItook the road to Don cajler, and made enquiries into the ftate and culture of the rich lauds near that town. Farms rife from jo/. to 7o/. a year, and the land lets, on an average, at 50 s. an acre. Their crops of wheat are, on an average, about 30 bufhels, of rye 34, of barley 6 quarters, of oats 1 o, and of rape half a kft. They never feed this crop. Their turnips they neve...Read More