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points* highly picturesque and beautiful. Indeed, it 

 may be questioned if there is any thing either in this, 

 or the rest of the English counties, which approximates 

 so nearly to some of the romantic features of an Alpine 

 ridge. When, however, the distant view of it is ex- 

 changed for that from the summit, the emotions which 

 here take possession of the soul are something beyond 

 that of mere admiration. Though we may not be able 

 to exclaim with Goldsmith in his Traveller, — 



* E'en now, where Alpine solitudes ascend, 

 I sit me down a pensive hour to spend ; 

 And, i)laced on high above the storm's career, 

 Look downward where a hundred realms appear ;' — 



Yet if we consider that this is our own country, and 

 that the associations are all British, (how much is com- 

 prehended in this word !) it may perhaps be admitted 

 that the gratification derived from the prospect out- 

 spread before us, is scarcely inferor to that which is felt 

 when standing on the peaks of a still grander and sub* 

 limer region. From the top of Caradon, the eye sur- 

 veys towards the East a wide expanse of cultivated 

 scenery, and in the distance it catches a glimpse of 



* Especially from the fields in the neighbourhood of the Par- 

 sonage of South-hill, where the greater portion of the pages of 

 the Christian Naturalist were written. 



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