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individual resemblance and even expression of counte- 

 nance, amidst such a numerous and complicated group, 

 is greatly to the credit of the artist. As the picture is 

 yet unfinished, and as this article is chiefly occupied 

 with introduction, we shall not extend our remarks on 

 it at present. But as an object of local interest, we 

 shall enter more at large into discription of it when the 

 public are permitted to see it complete : unless press 

 of other subjects engross our pages. 



LOCAL SCENERY. No. 1. 



IN order that the series of papers, under the above 

 title, may appear complete in our magazine, we shall 

 insert Nos. 1 and 2, though they have already been 

 published, in an unfinished state, in a former periodical. 



SHARROW GROT. 



SHARROW Grot is an excavation in one of the rocks 

 which form the boundary of Whitsand Bay ; it was 

 hewn, some years ago, by a gentleman named Lugger, 

 who, it is said, cured himself of the gout by the under- 

 taking : over the entrance is a Latin inscription, altered 

 a little from the following passage in the /Eneid : 



" Intus aquae dulces, vivoque sedilia saxo ; 



" Nympharum domus." I. 167. 



The Grot, which is covered with metrical inscriptions 

 and the initials of visiters, has nothing in itself worthy 

 of particular notice ; but the sea, which it commands, is 

 exceedingly impressive and interesting at whatever 

 time or season it may be viewed. 



It is a cave 



Scooped in the solid stone by manual skill 

 Of one who loved, perchance, thy eloquence 

 O ! Nature when discoursing in the winds 

 And with mysterious voice, from the great deep, 

 Thou speak est of the Sole Omnipotent. 



