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Hoare's, in Wiltshire; but I was less delighted with the beauties of Stourhead, than with discovering in the library a common book, the Continuation of Echard's Roman History, which is indeed executed with more skill and taste than the previous work.
The following particulars relating to the office of Sheriff, are derived from a manuscript copy of the Journal of Richard Hoare, Esq. during the year of his Shrievalty, in 1740-41, in his own hand-writing, which is now in the possession of his grandson, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., of Stourhead, in Wiltshire.
The geological collections stones and fossils; and some interesting models of Avebury and Stonehenge, and particularly the Stourhead antiquities British and prehistoric should on no account be missed. An old diary of royal progresses gives the following account of a foreign visit in 1786: "On September 25 the Archduke and Duchess of Austria with their suite arrived in town from Bath.
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