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fingle fweep ; or it's deviations may be ir- 

 regular. The wood may confift of full-grown 

 trees ; or of underwood j or of a mixture of both. 

 The path, which winds through it, may run 

 along the upper part, or the lower. Or, 

 laftly, the rivulet may foam among rocks; 

 or it may murmur among pebbles ; or it 

 jnay form tranfparent pools, overhung with 

 wood ; or, which is often the cafe, it may 

 be totally invifible ; an obje6t only of the ear. 



The moft beautiful circumftances that at- 

 tend the internal parts of a glen, are the glades, 

 or openings, which are found in it. If the 

 whole were a thicket, like the full-grown copfe, 

 little beauty would refult. An agreeable fhade 

 only in that cafe, muft fatisfy our expedta- 

 tions. But the glen, whofe furniture is com- 

 monly of more fortuitous growth, than that 

 of the copfe, and not fo fubjecl to periodical 

 defalcations, exhibits generally more beautiful 

 fcenery. Particularly it abounds with frequent 

 openings. The eye is carried down, from the 

 higher grounds, to a fweep of the river or to 

 a little gufhing cafcade or to the face of a 

 fractured rock, garnimed with hanging wood 

 or perhaps to a cottage, with it's fcanty area 

 of lawn falling to the river, on one fide ; and 



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