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effect of chance, or neceflity, we have only 

 to admire the happinefs of it. 



The cliff, on which the houfe ftands, is 

 about fifty, or fixty yards high. It is not 

 perpendicular, but the ground being of a 

 fpongy, foundering nature, is continually 

 falling in huge maffes , and affords an eafy 

 foundation for winding flairs among the heaps 

 of ruin, which occupy the ilope. At the 

 bottom you are received by a clean, fandy 

 beach, where, at the ebb of the tide, you 

 may continue your walk many miles. 



The houfe is a fumptuous pile \ and contains 

 much curiofity : but we were in quefl only of 

 fcenery. Lord Bute has made an attempt to 

 adorn the cliff around him with a plantation. 

 But if it fhould not thrive, as I think it hardly 

 can, the lofs perhaps is not great. Trees, in 

 fo expofed a fituation, m^y perhaps juft get 

 hold of the ground: but it is impoflible for 

 them to produce either fhelter, or ornament. 

 Indeed in views of this kind, it may be 

 4oubted, whether the rural idea mould not 

 purpofely be excluded, as interfering with the 

 native grandeur of the fcene. Flowers, and 

 flowering fhrubs at lead feem alien beauties. 



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