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trickles down the Hills, and the additional 

 Supplies of various Brooks and Rills that flill 

 into it, fortify and enrich it. Then it af- 

 fumes a Name, and fleers its Courfe along 

 the Sides of flowry Meads : It takes a Tour 

 all round the Hills, and graces, as it turns 

 and winds, the fpacious Plains. 



'Tis the general Rendezvous of almoll all 

 Kind of living Creatures, A Thoufand little 

 parti-coloured Birds, dof various Notes, di- 

 vert themfelves upon its fandy Banks, fkiai 

 o'er its Surface, dip their Wings in its re- 

 frefhing Streams, and fometimes plunge to 

 the Bottom in purfuit of Game, This is their 

 favourite Place all Day ; and when the Ap- 

 proach of Night compels them to withdraw, 

 they quit it with Relu6lance. The nume- 

 rous Herds forfake their Paftures twice a Day 

 to pay their vifit to the Streams, in which 

 they quench their Thiril, or feek fome cool 

 Retreat. In a Word, the River is as de- 

 lightful to Man, as it is to the Birds and 

 Beads: We generally rejed the Hills and 

 Woods, and fix our Habitations on its Banks. 



It enriches the Fifhermen with a Profufioii 

 of its Stores, and refreflies the Farmer's thir- 

 ily Soil. It adorns the pompo'js Seats of the 

 Nobility with the moft delightful Profpeds, 

 and makes the Country every way agreeable : 

 It pays a Vifit to thofe large Towns that are 

 indebted to its friendly Streams for all their 

 Wealth and Commerce : There it m.ajeftical- 

 ly rolls along between two Rows of coftly 

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