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most inaccessible, by reason of hills and multi- 

 plicity of boggs. 



Theoph. What lofty domineering towers are 

 those that storm the air, and stand a-tiptoe (to 

 my thinking) upon two stately elevated pon- 

 drous rocks, that shade the valley with their 

 prodigious growth, even to amazement? Be- 

 cause to display such adequate and exact pro- 

 portion, with such equality in their montanous 

 pyramides, as if nature had stretch'd them into 

 parallel lines with most accurate poize, to amuze 

 the most curious and critical observer ; though 

 with exquisite perspectives he double an obser- 

 vation, yet shall he never trace a disproportion 

 in those uniform piermonts. 



Arn. These are those natural, and not artifi- 

 cial pyramides, that have stood, for ought I 

 know, since the beginnings of time ; nor are 

 they sheltred under any disguise, for nature 

 herself drest up this elaborate precipice, without 

 art or engine, or any other manual, till arriving 

 at this period of beauty and perfection. And 

 because, having laws and limits of her own, des- 

 tinated by the prerogative royal of Heaven, she 

 heap'd up these massy inaccessible pyramides, to 

 invalidate art, and all its admirers, since so 

 equally to shape a mountain, and to form it in- 

 to so great and such exact proportions. 



Theoph. Then it's no fancy, I perceive, when 



