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from the craggy clefts and chafms of thefe 

 noble rocks : This intermixture of rock 

 and wood is truly romantic and pidlurefque. 

 The river aids the general effedt, by the 

 rapidity of its current; for raging over rocks 

 ^nd ftones, the roar is in unifon with its 

 fhoar, and all together tend ftrongly to 

 imprefs upon the mind an idea of awe and 

 terror. 



Advancing through this noble fcene, the 

 walk leads through a grafs dale, the rocks 

 are loft, and the whole fcene varied : On 

 one fide the river is a hill covered with 

 wood ; and you view the other through a 

 tall fcattered hedge in a moft pleafing man- 

 ner; it is a projediing rock, with a fine 

 fcattering of fhrubby wood beautifully vari- 

 egated. Here you fhould turn and view 

 the rocks you have left; the fun (hining on 

 them gives their refle(ftion, in the fmooth 

 parts of the river, in a ftile very pi(5turefque. 

 Still advancing, you catch in front among 

 the wood a ruin on the banks of the river, 

 half covered with ivy, and backed nobly 

 with wood ; the river rapid and romantic, 

 under a new wall of formidable rocks. 

 Juft before you come to the abbey, you 

 may remark an old oak, fo connected with 



rock. 



