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trees, which are rare, fcathed, and meagre, 

 are in general not only ugly, but ill-combined. 

 Some formalities alfo give it a bad effect. 

 The road rifes to the eye in three regular 

 ftages. The fummit too is formally abrupt. 

 It is a gaping chafm, opening like a wide 

 portal, difcovering the naked horizon, and 

 making, as it were, a full paufe in the land- 

 fcape : we difcover it plainly to be artificial ; 

 and this hurts the eye. The effect is beautiful 

 on the other fide of Lyndhurft, where the 

 chafm of the vifta, as you approach, is filled 

 with the tops of retiring trees, which excites 

 the idea of fomething beyond it; and gives 

 it a more natural air. 



The gaping chafm appears long the ftriking 

 feature of the view, as we rife the hill. In 

 our approach to it however the eye is, here 

 and there, agreeably drawn afide ; particularly 

 by a foreft-lawn, which prefents itfelf about 

 a mile, and a half from Lyndhurft; opening 

 both on the right and left. It is decorated 

 irregularly with wood rifes before the eye 

 blends itfelf leifurely with a few fcattered 

 trees, and clumps, which come forward from 

 the diftant woods to meet it and then lofes 



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