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an acre for this land (the igsact premium of my St.Helena Shares)--a very handsom price for land which never yielded two shillings an acre; and very convenient to his Lordship I know, who had a bill coming due at his Bankers which he had given them.
James de la Pluche, Esquire, is thus for the fust time a landed propriator--or rayther, I should say, is about to reshume the rank & dignity in the country which his Hancestors so long occupied. "I have caused one of our inginears to make me a plann of the Squallop Estate, Diddlesexshire, the property of &c.
&c., bordered on the North by Lord Bareacres' Country; on the West by Sir Granby Growler; on the South by the Hotion.
An Arkytect & Survare, a young feller of great emagination, womb we have employed to make a survey of the Great Caffranan line, has built me a beautiful Villar (on paper), Plushton Hall, Diddlesex, the seat of I de la P., Esquire.
The house is reprasented a handsome Itallian Structer, imbusmd in woods, and circumwented by beautiful gardings.
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