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PRICES of STOCKS, from SEPTEMBER 28, to OCTOBER 28, 1795, both inclufive. BY ANTHONY CLARKE, Stock-Broker, No. 13, Sweeting's-Alley, Cornhill. Nivy Bill. English Lot. Tic. 14 4 6 In the 3 per Cent. confols. the highest and lowest Price of each Day is given; in every other Article the higheft Price only, the Long and Short Annuities excepted which are given within a fixteenth of the higheft Price. In the different Funds that are shut, the Prices are given with the Dividend till the Days of Opening. The UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE for NOVEMBER, 1795. 297 A New DESCRIPTION of the ROYAL PARKS and FOREST, near Windfor: With a beautiful View of SOPHIA FARM, the Seat of Mr. Birch, on St. Leonard's Hill. THER Here alio an old oak is ftill faid to exist, by the name of Herne's Oak, The admirer of natural antiquity, who would wish to investigate the fubject, will find an ampie account of it in Mr. Gilpin's Forell Scenery. It is thus celebrated by Shakspeare: There is an old tale goes, that Herne, the hanter, 1 Sometime a keeper here in Windfor Foret, And there he blasts the tree, and takes the HE Little Park at Windfor derick duke of Cumberland, his preembraces the north and eaft fent majefty has taken it under his fides of the Castle, and is about four own immediate care, and amufes him mles in circumference, declining felf in giving it every advantage which gently from the terrace to the Thames, the united efforts of good hulbandry, It is a charming fpot, pleafantly wood- and landscape improvement, can be! ed; and there is a row of ancient trees, flow upon it. It confifts of near 4000 near the Queen's Lodge, which is faid acres, beautifully diverified in hill to have been planted by order of queen and dale; many parts of it nobly. Elifabeth, and still retains her name. planted with venerable bodies of wood, varied with wild and romantic fcenery. While this extent of do main remained in the hands of a ranger, he employed it as a temporary advantage, and never thought of beftowing upon it any permanent improvement: but his majefty having thought proper to take that office upon himself, every rational experiment which can add beauty, or produce advantage, is brought forward; and perfons of the firft eminence and kill are employed in the execution of a magnificent plan of embellishment in the park; as well as to hold forth ad example of improved husbandry to the imitation, and, as it may be hoped, to the adoption of the furrounding country. The principal outlines of this plan embrace a vaft compafs of draining, which is completed, without deformity, after the mode adopted in Effex; an extensive scene of planting upon the high grounds and eminences, where a grandeur of effect can be produced; a delicate opening of the bottom parts, in order to throw the vales into beautiful favannas; a felection of the fine fylvan parts into harbours for game; with fheep-walks for large flocks; and the formation of two contrafted farms at the oppofite ends of the park. The one, from the lightness of the foil, is established on the Norfolk fyftem of husbandry, under a rotation of fix-courfe cropping, with all the advantages of turnip cultivation; and the other, which confifts of a loamy foil, is carried on in PP And makes milch kine yield blood, and shakes a chain, In a most hideous and dreadful manner. Merry Wives of Windfor, At IV. Sc. 4. Formerly, numerous herds of deer were kept in this park ; but fince the year 1785, it has been ftocked with theep and cattle of various denominations; yet there are fill fome deer remaining, and plenty of hares, which frequently afford his majesty the diverfion of courfing. Windfor Great Park adjoins the fouth fide of the town. A noble road near three miles in length, called the Long Walk, and adorned on each fide, with a double plantation of flately trees, leads to the fummit of a delightful hill, near the Ranger's Lodge, whence there is a very luxuriant profpect of the Caftle, Eton College, and the country beyond. This park poffeffes a circuit of fourteen miles; and, fince the death of the late Henry Fre VOL. XCVII. |