Excerpt from Which Is the Winner?, Vol. 1 of 3: Or the First Gentleman of His Family TO the lover of the picturesque, the Midland counties Of England are presumed to present but few attractions. The presumption is unjust. Vvarwickshire is full of beauties: its magnificent glades and gently undulating woodlands, Which intersect the county, give to the eye a park-like appearance, scarcely surpassed in any part of this island; the varieties Of its substrata present a series Of fruit-bearing pictures to the agricul tural speculator; and the great extent Of rich pasture-land assimilates to its neighbouring counties of Northampton and Leicester. In vol. I. B' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.