Feb 18th We left & walked to
but on the road we spent several hours in
visiting the Noted Park of [FIGURE]
the present DUKE [FIGURE] of Southerland
Staffordshire. This park is about 5 miles in length &
5 in bredth, the first thing of note that strike the atten
tion while coming on the rode from Stone to Stoke is
several hundred acres of ground planted over with
young sprouts in order to make timber, which ground is
hilly. next appears Spring Vale, the lower fountain is a
forced vein which spirts or throws a stream of water about
12 feet above the surface of the water, their is a fish polol
above the first fountain, but rather small, their is a
splendid stone house, on the hill above for the purpose of
keeping persons that are Insane. there are a number
of small monuments around this vale. The next is the
manner house built of stone but mostly in ruins, it is
more than five hundred years old, & one family have
lived in it more than 300 years ie desending from father
to son. We next visited the splended erected
in memory of the late Duke father of the
present . It stands erect upon a hill
built of hewn stone, the foundation is square 160 ^feet^ round
it, each laying of stone is drawn into a narrow compase
about 3 feet each laying untill about 12 feet high then the
monument is round for about 60 feet, then the Image
of the Duke stands on the top being about 10 feet in hight
with a roll of paper in his left hand (he was a memder
of parliment) facing his splended mansion house in the vale
north of the monument. the whole monument about 80
feet in hight [FIGURE] A person at this monument has a fine view
of the mansion house which is an expensive & splended build-
ing it covers about 4 acres, built of hewn stone, having
much carved work of Lions & other Images, their were
365 windows in it before the repairs or additions which the
present Duke is making which it is supposed will take 7
years to accomplish. Their are some hundreds of acres of
wood land & firm paches all of which are enclosed with
a fence of 4 & 5 feet high the whole of the fence composed
of solid Iron their are miles of Iron railing in this park
The Duke Has vast quantities of game, fish & fowl in his
Park, such as Deer, Hares, Rabits, Pheasants, Ducks, Geese
Swan, Trout & many other kinds of fish. The Deer are
as tame as sheep we saw about 300 in one drove. there
are game keepers to see that no person trespasses upon
the park, the runs through the park the
Duke has converted the whole of it for a distance into
a fish pool. I visited the burying ground which was
coverd with many kinds of evergreen, the publick road
running through the park is betwen two stone walls
about 10 feet thick, 4 to 6 high coverd with turf & green grass
This DUKE of Southerland has two other Parks of
as much value as the one above named, as to his wealth
he nor no man knoweth. But as JESUS said concer
ning the stones of the Temple, [Matthew 24:2] [Luke 21:5-6] it will in like manner be with
the monuments & pride of this generation, they will spedily
be lade low in the Dust together.
I walked from to then to atten
ded meeting at Deacon Elder
preached I spent the night at Elder Cordons. Elder
Cordon Baptized one at Monday night 17th
[FIGURE] I recieved a Letter of
