JASrKK aT. AUbYN. •"^"•^ 



" At the in»[ier ciitl this pool is so deep as to be vul^'jirly 

 ilccmcil uufjitliomuble; hrlow, however, it expands yet widiM- 

 into a shallow ripphn<; ford, where it is erossed hy the hi|^h- 

 roail, down stream of whieh a<;ain there is another h)nj^, sharp 

 rapid, and another fall, ovt-r the last steps of the hills; after 

 whieh the natnre of the stream becomes chauf^ed, and it 

 ninrnmrs -xcntiy onward tlnonj^h a green pastoral etmntry, 

 unripplrd and nnintrrrnpted. 



" J list in tlu- inner angle of the high-road, on the right hand 

 of the stream, there stood an old-fashioned, low-hruwi-d, thatcli- 

 eovercd, stoue cottage, with a rnile portieo of rnstic wooilwork 

 (jvi-rrnn with jasmine and virgin-bower, and a pretty tlower- 

 garden sloping down in successive terraces to the edge of the 

 bjisin. Beside this, there was no other house in sight, unless it 

 were part of the roof of a mill which stood in the low ground 

 on the brink of the second fall, surroundeil with a mass of 

 willows. But the tall steeple of a country church, raising itself 

 heavenward above the brow of the hill, seemed to show that, 

 although concealed by the undulations of the ground, a village 

 was hard at hand. 



"The morning had changed a second time, a hazy lilui had 

 crept up to the zenith, and the sun uas now roxtred with a pale 

 golden veil, ami a slight eurrcnt of air down the gorge rutUed 

 the water. 



" It was a capital pool, famous for being the temporary haunt 

 of the very finest fish, whieh were wont to lie there awhile, jus if 

 to recruit themselves after the exertions of leaping the two falls 

 and stemming the double rapid, before attempting to ascend the 

 stream fartlur. 



