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When the wall was intire, compleatly hid the 

 river, and all it's beautiful appendages from 

 the walk. Time has now reftored them. 

 Tho the wall yet holds out in fome places, it 

 has in general failed. Large portions of it are 

 gone ; and in other parts there are chafms, 

 and fractures, through which the river, and 

 the furrounding woods appear often to great 

 advantage from the walk. Old oaks likewife, 

 coeval with the abbey itfelf, are fcattered pro- 

 f ufely around the ruins of the wall ; fometimes 

 lupporting it, and fometimes fupported by it*. 

 They are every where beautiful appendages ; 

 and in many places unite with the ruins 

 into the moft pleafing fore-grounds ; while the 

 river, fpread here into a lake, and the woods 

 beyond it, form a diftance. 



Great part of the area between this beautiful 

 walk, and the abbey, is occupied by an open 

 grove ; part of which is beautiful, and -part 

 deformed. The reafon of the difference is, 

 that one part is planted carelefly by the hand 

 of nature ; the other regularly by that of art. 



Of the buildings of the abbey confi- 

 derable parts remain ; enough to fliew, that 

 it has formerly been conftructed in a rich 



* See an account of one of thefe old oaks, vol. i. page 176. 



Gothic 



