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finefl: colour imaginable, fpotted with iflandsj 

 of which you fee five, and are high enough 

 to command the water around them. One 

 is in the middle, of about five acres of grafs 

 land, with a houfe under a clump of trees 

 on one fide of it ; the whole objed: beauti- 

 fully pidlurefque : You look alfo upon ano- 

 ther planted with Scotch firs; and alfo 

 upon three others more diftant. This is 

 the view of the floor of this noble amphi- 

 theatre ', the walls are in different flile— 

 fublime. To the left you look firfl on a 

 hilly rock, partly covered with fhrubby 

 wood ; and further on, upon a chain of tre- 

 mendous rocks, near 400 yards high; their 

 feet are fpread with hanging woods, but 

 their heads bare, broken, and irregular. 

 Following the line the lake feems to lofe 

 itfelf among a wood of rocks and moun- 

 tains, the tops rifing one above another in 

 the wildefl manner imaginable : The op- 

 pofite fhore prefents you a full view of a 

 vafl range of hills ; and behind, you look 

 upon the prince of the furrounding moun- 

 tains, Skiddow, whofe tremendous head 

 rears above the clouds. 



Leaving this hill you v/alk down to 

 your boat, and are flruck with the limpid 



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