to diverfify the fcene -, but now and then the 

 fight of a bear, or flights of wild-fowl. So 

 uninterefting a paflage leaves me nothing far- 

 ther to add." 



It is hardly poflible, in fo few words, to 

 prefent more pifturefque ideas of the horrid, 

 and favage kind. We have a river running 

 up a country, broken on both fides with wild, 

 romantic rocks j which, we know nature never 

 conftrucls in a uniform manner. We naturally 

 therefore conclude, they ran out, in fome parts, 

 into vaft diagonal jftrata ; on the ledges of which 

 a group of bears might appear, howling at the 

 boat. In other parts, the rocks would form 

 lofty promontories, hanging over the river, and 

 inhabited by numerous flights of fcreaming fea- 

 fowl. This is not an imaginary picture j but 

 copied with exaclnefs from captain King's 

 fketch. And yet he has no conception, that a 

 fcene fo favage could prefent any other ideas, 

 than fuch as were difgufting. He calls it an 

 unvaried fcene ; by which expreflion he meant 

 nothing, I am , perfuaded, but that the rocks 

 were neither intermixed with villages, nor with 

 fcenes of cultivation. The rocks in themfelves, 

 no doubt, were greatly varied. Wood might 

 probably be wanting j but in a fcene of pic- 



turefque 



