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SECT. I—Zouſes of Proprietors.

HERE are not many noblemen’s ſeats in tlie county, and

thoſe have been already ſufficiently deſcribed in former publications.—In regard to the ſeats of the gentry, Ince Hall, belonging to Henry Blundell, Eſg; deſerves particular notice, having been much improved by its preſent poſſeſſor, not only by the addition of excellent offices, hot walls, green-' ouſes, and paddock, but alſo on account of its being ornamented with many excellent paintings by ancient and modern maſters, fo- reign and Engliſh; many marble ftatues, rich tapeſtry, and other articles, have been ſele&ted to embelliſh this ſeat, in a fyle ſo as to become a place of reſort to the young artiſt, the virtuoſi, and the curious traveller.

The buildings of the merchants and tradeſmen diſperſed over many parts of the county, and particularly in the vicinities of large towns, certainly merit notice*.—Conſiderable exp:ncz having been laid out of late years in the eredion, finiſhing, and embelliihing many of them in a2 ſuperior ſtyle—many of which are furniſhed with hot walls, green-houſes, the rarelt plants and fineft fruits: the adjoining grounds have becn im- proved, laid out in various ftyles, and fringed with planta- tions.

* Some gentlemen tradeſmen’s houſes in Mancheſter are ere&ed upon a cite of land, which pays a um no leſs than 50 /. per annum ground-rent.

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