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The instant the Corn Harvest is over the unclear generally at the Pens is to repaired and a certain number of Rows of Piles are to be put in the places which Elphick is aware of and the Posts in the Horse Yard are to be well examined and those that require it are to be placed on Brick and Stone. By a letter of 16th instant from Barton I find he thinks Augustus had been down with his brother at Portsmouth in which case I do not blame either yourself or Merewether. But he ought to have remained at Bushy. Our weather is fine and hot and I am afraid the crop of grass in England will be short. Here I never saw more abundance: but then the river always overflows. The Corn