PERPENDICULAR TOWERS OF SOMERSET. 47 



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BY THE REV. F. WARRE. 



OF all the varied beauties of the county we inhabit, 

 well worthy as it is of its Celtic name, whicli Hearne 

 translates " the laughing summer field," none perhaps is 

 more striking to the eye of the traveller, er more essentially 

 connected in the mind of the native with its scenery, than 

 the church towers, — Dundry crowning the peak of its lofty 

 hUl; BackweU relieved by the wooded side of Mendip; 

 Äutton nestling among its elms; Yatton, Brent, Lymp- 

 sham, Bridgwater, North Curry, Lyng, the two splendid 

 towers of Taunton, Norton, Bradford, and Wellington, 

 cannot faü to attract the notice of every passenger by the 

 Bristol and Exeter Railway, while to the native who meets 

 with them, now backed by the hill side, now breaking the 

 level monotony of wide-stretched moor, now buried among 

 the dark green foliage of surrounding elms, or rising in calm 

 majesty amidst undulating com-fields and richly verdaut 

 meadows, — they become as much a part of the scenery, 

 which, perhaps without bis knowing it, is almost necessary 

 to bis comfort, as the hüls, fields, and meadows themselves ; 

 and if bis thoughts lead bim deeper than mere impressions, 

 he cannot but confess that they are not only calculated to 



