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upon the magnates of his unhappy country. And 
yet, desolate as it is, Uphill is not wanting in a stern 
beauty almost approaching to sublimity ;—the re- 
pose of the wide extended plain on one side; the 
broad Severn sea on the other; the little town of 
Weston beneath, backed by the heights of Worle 
Hill, crowned with ancient and mysterious ram- 
parts; the bold line of Mendip, along which stretches 
the Roman road, satisfactorily traced by Sir R. 
Hoare, from Uphill to old Sarum; the solitary 
majesty of the old church standing out so boldly 
against the sky: the rugged cliff and brown ridge 
of Brean, joined to the historie recollections attached 
to the place—all combine to render this desolate 
spot one peculiarly interesting to the antiquary, the 
artist, or the poet; while the caves beneath, filled 
as they are with relics of unknown antiquity, render 
it no less attractive to the geologist and comparative 
anatomist. 
Uphill Church probably stands upon the site of 
the Roman Axium, the port from which the pro- 
duce of their mining establishments at Wellow and 
elsewhere on the Mendip Hills was shipped,— 
mining speculation, and not mere glory, being pro- 
bably the real motive of their invasion of this 
country ; for that great nation, though not altogether 
advocates for the doctrines now held by Messıs. 
Cobden and Bright, were far too wise to engage in 
war without some more tangible object than mere 
fame. 
