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records himself, in a MS.

If it be planted with hard woods, chiefly oaks, and a few firs to nurse them up, supposing it is a plantation purely for profit, the expense of plants and planting, per acre, will be 6 l.

With little intercourse with the capital; in the midst of huge forests, and almost impassable roads; hunting and carousing were their chief pleasures and employments, amid a throng of rude retainers.

But it is not merely within doors that the singular privileges of an English gentleman lie.

When we wander through the pleached alleys, and by the time-stained fountains of these old gardens, perished years indeed seem to come back again to us.

It is cheering to observe how much our monarchs, from Henry VIII.

Whether an age were poetical or mathematical, made a mighty difference in the garden-style of the time.

It currently resides in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of London, because when the boy's parents refused to donate his body after he died from a cobra bite at the age of 4, the English courageously dug him up and chopped his head off.

I will add too, as a further recommendation, and let it restore me to the good graces of the voluptuous, that it supplies both the table and the altar with the greatest variety and abundance.

Everyone knows how their writings overflow with the praises of country life, and what delight they took in their farms and villas.

Enviable Position of the English Country Gentleman as regards all the Pleasures and Advantages of Life—every Art and Energy exerted in his Favour—by them his House surrounded with Delights—the News and the Luxuries of the World brought to his Table—Books, Music, Paintings at his command—Farming, Gardening, Planting, Field-sports all within his grasp—Scenes which offer themselves to extend his Pleasures—the Service of his Country open to him—Facilities for Travel—Pursuits and Pleasures afforded by Country Life to Ladies CHAPTER III.

The formalities of the French and Dutch have been sufficiently condemned.