But it may fill be doubted whether those who without good reafon placed confidence in the magical power of a hazle wand, will fee any reafon in what our infidel author advances against it, to evacuate their former opinion.

In brief, the moft confiderable, and by far the best parts of this pamphlet are confeffedly taken from M. Morand's Art of working coal mines; and are produced to fhew, from a comparative view of the ftrata in coal countries, with thofe of Dorsetshire, &c. the probability of finding plenty of coal in the western counties of England. Art. 52. A new Hiftory of Scotland, from the earliest Accounts to the prefent Time. By John Belfour. 12mo. 3 s. 6d. Dilly. 1770. This epitome may prove very acceptable to thofe who are not poffeffed of the larger hiftories of Scotland. The Author, to use his own words, writes in a ftyle rather elevated than lifelefs; and his principles are friendly to freedom, both civil and religious.

SERMONS.

I. Before the Houfe of Commons, Jan. 30, 1770. By William Barford, M. A. chaplain to the hon. houfe, and vicar of Fordenbridge, Hants. T. Payne..

II. A Word in Seafon; or, Submiffion to Government. At Bristol. By W. Pine. Cooke.

II. At Aldermanbury-poftern, for the benefit of the charity-school in Bartholomew Clofe, Feb. 7, 1770. By Samuel Wilton. Buckland.

IV. Beelzebub driving and drowning his Hogs. A Sermon on Mark v. 12, 13. By J. Burgefs, of Lancashire. Publifhed at Request. Buckland.

This is fo much in the odd ftyle of Daniel Burgefs, of famous" memory, that we fufpect it to be fome old fanatical fermon of the laft age newly vamped. Who or what is J. Burgess of Lancashire?' Surely no Minifter, of any perfuafion, now living, could think of delivering fuch a filly difcourfe from the pulpit! The Editor talks of the occafion given to Deifts by certain expofitors of fcripture, to ridicule our divine ftandard of faith, when they fee it turned any way like a nofe of wax.' But furely no abfurdities in any of our Bible commentators, can be more likely to excite the ridicule of unbelievers than fuch mean, buffoonith productions as this hog-driving fermon !

V. Children fhouting their Hofannas to Chrift-occafioned by the death of a child eight years old; with fome account of her pious temper, while in health, and of her remarkable expreflions in her laft iilnefs;-at Kidderminfler, Oct. 22, 1769. By Benj. Fawcet, M. A. Buckland, &c.

ERRAT A.

In the Appendix to the laft volume of our Review, p. 515, 1. 172. for ferofity, read ferofity.

In the Review for February, p. 105, 1. 31, for shaken, r. shaking. Ibid. p. 107, for phenomena, r. phenomenon.

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MONTHLY REVIEW,

For APRIL, 1770.

ART. I. A Six Months Tour*, &c. concluded. See Review

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HE ornaments of a country are generally found in proportion to the state of its cultivation. We find monu ments of art, indeed, in the midft of defarts; particularly the ruins of religious houfes; but the fequeftered wildness of thofe fituations had peculiar purpofes to anfwer. It was there that folitary fuperftition retired to the aufterities of religion; and it was there too that hypocrify withdrew for the privacy of indulgence. The great objects of our ancestors, with regard to the fituation of their manfion-houfes, feem to have been plenty and fecurity. We frequently fee their remains on the borders. of low and marfhy grounds, furrounded with deep moats or moraffes. In thefe fituations it is certain that neither health nor elegance were confulted; but their hardy habits of life made them unfolicitous about the diftinctions of air; and the fimplicity of their manners confined their tafte within the fphere of conveniency. That fpot feemed moft defirable which would fooneft fatten their flocks and herds; and that house they esteemed the beft which would moft effectually anfwer the purposes of hofpitality.

But, with improvements in cultivation, we have made improvements in tafte; and rural elegance is now one of the diftinguishing ornaments of our country The Author of the Six Months Tour has, therefore, very properly and agreeably united the account of thefe improvements; and, at the fame time that the internal economy of the earth forms the bafts of his work, its external ornaments ferve to embellifh it. Of the

Since our former article, we have obferved that the name of the Author of this work is affixed to the advertisements of the book, viz. Arthur Young, Efq; of North Mims, Herts.

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latter we shall give a few extracts, for which we are perfuaded we fhall have the thanks of our Readers.

WENTWORTH-CASTLE.

• Wentworth-caftle is more famous for the beauties of the ornamented environs, than for that of the house, though the front is fuperior to many. The water and the woods adjoining, are sketched with great tafte. The first extends through the park in a meandring course, and wherever it is viewed, the terminations are no where feen, having every where the effect of a real and beautiful river; the groves of oaks fill up the bends of the ftream in the most elegant manner. Here advancing thick to the very banks of the water; there appearing at a distance, breaking away to a few scattered trees in fome fpots, and in others joining their branches into the moft folemn brownnels. The water, in many places, is feen from the houfe between the trees of feveral fcattered clumps most picturesquely; in others, it is quite loft behind hills, and breaks every where upon the view in a ftile that cannot be too much admired.

The fhrubbery that adjoins the houfe is difpofed with the utmost elegance; the waving flopes dotted with firs, pines, &c. are exceffively pretty, and the temple is fixed at fo beautiful a fpot, as to command the fweet landscape of the park, and the rich profpect of adjacent country, which rifes in a bold manner, and prefents an admirable view of cultivated hills.

Winding up the hill among the plantations and woods, which are laid out in an agreeable tafte, we came to the bowling green, which is thickly encompaffed with evergreens; retired and beautiful with a very light and pretty Chinese temple on one fide of it; and from thence crofs a dark walk catching a moft beautiful view of a bank of diftant wood. The next object is a ftatue of Ceres in a retired fpot, the arcade appearing with a good effect, and through the three divifions of it, the diftant profpect is feen very finely. The lawn which leads up to the castle is elegant, there is a clump of firs on one fide of it, through which the diftant profpect is feen; and the above mentioned ftatue of Ceres, caught in the hollow of a dark grove, with the moft picturesque elegance, and is one among the few inftances of ftatues being employed in gardens with real tafte. From the platform of grafs within the castle walls (in the center of which is a ftatue of the late earl who built it) over the battlements, you behold a furprizing profpect on which ever fide you look; but the view which pleases me bett, is that oppofite the entrance, where you look down upon a valley. which is extenfive, finely bounded by rifing cultivated hills, and very complete in being commanded at a fingle look notwishftanding its vaft variety.

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Within the menagery at the bottom of the park, is a moft pleafing thrubbery extremely fequeftered, cool, shady, and agreeably contrafted to that by the houfe from which fo much diant profpect is beheld; the latter is what may be called fine, but the former is pleasingly agreeable. We proceeded through the menagery (which is pretty well ftocked with pheafants, &c.) to the bottom of the fhrubbery, where is an alcove in a fequeftered fituation; in front of it the body of a large oak is feen at the end of a walk in a pleasing ftile; but on approaching it, three more are caught in the fame manner, which from uniformity in fuch merely rural and natural objects difpleates at the very firft fight. This fhrubbery, or rather plantation, is fpread over two nine flopes, the valley between which is a long winding hollow dale, exquifitely beautiful; the banks are thickly covered with great numbers of very fine oaks, whole noble branches, in fome places, almost join over the grafs lawn, which winds through this elegant valley; at the upper end is a Gothic temple, over a little grot, which forms an arch, and together have a most pleasing effect; on a near view, this temple is found a light, airy, and elegant building. Behind it is a water sweetly fituated; furrounded by hanging wood in a beautiful manner, an ifland in it prettily planted; and the bank on the left fide rifing elegantly from the water, and feattered with fine oaks. From the feat of the river God (the ftream by the by is too fmall to be fanctified) the view into the park is pretty, congenial with the spot, and the temple caught in proper ftile.

Before I leave this very agreeable place, let me remark to you, that in no great house which I have feen, have I met with more agreeable treatment, from all who fhow the feveral parts. generally feen by ftrangers, nor will you perhaps esteem it wrong to hint, that lady Strafford retired from her apartment for us to view it; I mention this as an inftance of general and undiftinguishing politenefs, a ftriking contrast to that unpopular and affected dignity in which fome great people think proper to cloud their houfes-fuch is the neceffity of gaining ticketsof being acquainted with the family-of giving notice beforehand of your intention; all which is terribly inconvenient to a traveller.'

WENTWORTH-HOUSE.

The park and environs of Wentworth-house, are, if any thing, more noble than the edifice itfelf; for which way foever you approach, very magnificent woods, fpreading waters, and elegant temples break upon the eye at every angle. But there is fo great a variety in the points of view, that it is impoffible to lead you a regular tour of the whole without manifeft con

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fufion; I fhall therefore take the parts diftinctly, and so pass

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Many of the objects are viewed to the greatest advantage by taking the principal entrance from Rotheram; this approach, his lordship is at prefent laying out; much of the road, &c. is done, and when compleated it will be a continued landscape, as beautiful as can be conceived. At the very entrance of the park, the profpect is delicious; in front you look full upon a noble range of hills, dales, lakes and woods, the house magnificently fituated in the center of the whole. The eye naturally falls into the valley before you, through which the water winds in a noble ftile; on the oppofite fide is a vast sweep of rifing flopes, finely fcattered with trees, up to the houfe, which is here feen diftinctly, and ftands in the point of grandeur from whence it feems to command all the furrounding country. The woods ftretching away above, below, and to the right and left with inconceivable magnificence; from the pyramid on one fide, which rifes from the bofom of a great wood, quite around to your left hand, where they join one of above an hundred acres hanging on the fide of a vaft hill, and forming altogether an amphitheatrical profpect, the beauties of which are much eafier imagined than defcribed. In one place the ruftic temple crowns the point of a waving hill, and in another the Ionic one appears with a lightness that decorates the surrounding groves. The fituation of the house is no where better feen than from this point, for, in fome places near, it seems to stand too low; but the contrary is manifeft from hence, for the frontfweep of country forms the flope of a gradually rifing hill, in the middle of which is the house; up to it is a fine bold rise; if it was on the higheft of the ground, all the magnificence of the plantations which ftretch away beyond it would be loft, and those on each fide take the appearance of right lines, ftiffly pointing to the edifice. But this remark is almoft general, for I fcarce know a fituation in which the principal building should be on the highest ground.

• Defcending from hence towards, the wood beneath you, hanging towards the valley, and through which the road leads, - before it enters, another view breaks upon the eye, which cannot but delight it. First, the water winding through the valley in a very beautiful manner; on the other fide a fine flope rifing to the ruftic temple, moft elegantly backed with a dark spreading wood. To the right a vast range of plantations, covering a whole fweep of hill, and near the fummit the pyramid railing its bold head from a dark bofom of furrounding wood. The effect truly great!In the center of the view, in a gradual opening among the hills, appears the houfe; the fituation won