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party does not live one hundred miles from 

 either hotel. Moreover, the stranger will find, 

 at the close of the day, when his angling 

 amusements are for the time terminated, a 

 social and friendly reception, if he choose to 

 repair to any of the public rooms frequented 

 by a mixed company. One of the writers of 

 this book is a stranger, temporarily, he fears, 

 sojourning in the town of Ashborne, and, 

 speaking from experience, he assures all stran- 

 gers of social hearts and dispositions, that 

 they will find kindred spirits there, and that 

 it will be with a strong feeling of regret that 

 they will sigh farewell to Ashborne. 



Long, long before we came to Ashborne, we 

 heard of the beauty of its church, and though 

 our imaginations are pretty warm, and apt to 

 be too highly excited by previous description, 

 we were not disappointed when we first beheld 

 it. If we were, it was agreeably so. The 

 beauty of this church is, that there is nothing 

 extravagant nothing running to extremes 

 in its architecture. We have seen churches 

 more striking in 'their appearance, either from 

 over-wrought and over-mixed decoration, or, 

 strange as it may appear, from their extreme, 

 their naked simplicity; but we do not recol- 

 lect having seen a church more likely to please 

 the man of chastened taste. It is very difficult 



