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streams naturally high-minded, to climbe such 

 lofty hills for preferment ? But what think you 

 of these barren fields, burdened with sterrility, 

 where the inhabitants, to my apprehension, feed 

 upon famine, or a morsel of moss. It represents 

 to me the suburbs of poverty, if when to consi- 

 der their scarcity of accommodation. 



Thevph. Come, then, let us break the heart of 

 these hills, and bless our eyes with a landskip of 

 the Lowlands, that serve as a sanctuary to shel- 

 ter us against storms, and protection against im- 

 petuous rains. But what E Utopia's this that 

 dwells below us ? 



Am. It's neither Sir Thomas Moor's, nor Ba- 

 con's Atlantas i here we have already made a 

 fair discovery, but when you come to trace the 

 firtility of Dean, whose flourishing streams en- 

 rich the shores, then you will tell me of the 

 angler's entertainment. 



Tlieopli. What place is that, that directs north- 

 ward to the Pole ? 



Am. That's Kinkarn Oneal ; beyond which, 

 the foundations of Pitriffny and Bovena scout, 

 as you may see, beneath the skirts of the High- 

 lands ; obvious to any man that tramples her 

 moors, that direct to the source and beginnings 

 of Trespey, whose boistrous streams glide along- 

 through Murryland ; a pleasant and plentiful 

 part of a country, that's beautified and adorned 



