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Mifs Seward has addrefled this abbey in language 

 finely poetical and defcriptive : 



Say ivy'd, Valle Crucis, time decay'd. 



Dim on the brink of Deva's wandering flood. 



Your riv'd arch glimmering thro' the tangled glade, 

 Your gay hills cowering o'er your night of wood, 



Deep in the vales's recefies as you Hand, 



And dcfolately great the rifing figh command. 



There are ftill remaining of the church the eall 

 and weft ends, and the fouth tranfept. In the weft 

 end there is an arched door-way, that has been 

 highly and very beautifully ornamented : over this, 

 in a round arch, there have been three lancet win- 

 dows ; and above thefe a circular, or marigold one, 

 with eight divifions. The eaft end, from its ftile of 

 architecture, appears of higher antiquity than the 

 other; and its three long, narrow, and pointed win- 

 dows, give it a heavy appearance. The cloifter on 

 the fouth fide, which a century ago was only a ftiell, 

 is now converted into a dwelling-houfe, the refidence 

 of the perfon who farms the adjacent land. Three 

 rows of groined arches, on fmgle round pillars, fup- 

 port the dormitory, which is now a loft for contain- 

 ing corn, approached by ftcps from without. The 

 floors are here fo thick, from their being arched 

 beneath, that when the doors are ftmt, and the 

 threftiers are at work, even in that part directly 

 over the prefent kitchen, they cannot be heard be- 

 low. — ^Part of a chimney in one of the bed-chambers 

 is a relic of a fepulchral monument. — The ornaments 



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