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dicular a fteep, that it is furprifing how fuch 

 a thick underwood fhould grow on it ; thefe 

 woods are of fo large an extent, as quite to 

 11 the eye in front. A little obliquely, to 

 the right, it turns, and furrounds a fmall 

 hollow vale, round which the river bends. 

 From the centre of the meep-wood a caf- 

 cade rufhes in the boldeft manner imagin- 

 able, and falls, in two fheets, above two 

 hundred feet perpendicularly : the water is 

 of the mod lucid tranfparency, and fo em- 

 bofomed in the wood, that in fome places 

 the branches of the trees fpread before it, 

 and partly hide it from the eye, rendering 

 the fcene truly pi&urefque. At bottom, 

 being hid by a tuft of trees, it prefently joins 

 the river, which flows by you. On the banks 

 of it is a fmall lawn (not what a lawn is in 

 moift climates, but very pretty for France) 

 on which the poultry and water-fowl of 

 every kind feed. On the left hand it edges 

 in a (hrubbery, planted by Madame La Place, 

 full of the moft beautiful flowering trees. 

 Here are walks, and the roofting places of 

 the poultry : one of the paths leads you 

 again to the river, where it divides and 

 forms an ifland, than which nothing can be 



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