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rishing streams for entertainment; there the 

 rocks and the groves will be our solent re- 

 ception, and the cities and citadels supply 

 us with accommodation ; and there I fancy 

 our time will be well enough spent to view 

 the country, and give a description of all 

 her curiosities : which I here present you, 

 my worthy patron, in this short narrative, 

 not doubting your clemency to absolve my 

 stripling muse, though not fleg enough to 

 elevate it self to the lowest elevations of 

 your generous acceptation. But I'll do what 

 I can in these northern tracts, to bring you 

 a discovery of some of her rarities, whose 

 solitary shades strike a damp to my pen, 

 because to behold there such unexpected 

 landskips, meanders and labyrinths (which 

 I frequently met with) as exposed my reso-r 

 lution to a farther progress, whereby to dis- 

 cover all her northern gaities that shin'd 

 so splendidly in every fir-wood, as also in 

 her lofty domineering hills, that over-top'd 

 the submissive shady dales, and over-look'd 

 the rapid torrents of rivers, and pretty purl- 

 ing gliding rivulets ; where the polish'd 

 rocks, and imbellish'd fortifications beyond 



