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 From we directed our course to, an estate devolved, through a long series of ancestors, to Mr. 's father, the present possessor. In our way we found several places remarkable enough in themselves, but already described by those who viewed them at more leisure, or with much more skill; and stopped two days at Mr. 's, a gentleman married to Mr. 's sister.

, which signifies a, seems not now to have any particular claim to its denomination. It is a district generally level, and sufficiently fertile, but like all the side of, incommoded by very frequent rain. It was, with the rest of the country, generally naked, till the present possessor finding, by the growth of some stately trees near his old castle, that the ground was favourable enough to timber, adorned it very diligently with annual plantations.