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 \vitching colours of nature's clear obfcurtf j 

 Lower ftill, you again catch it united in 

 one bright rulhing fall, in the dark bofonl 

 of a fine hollow wood, which fiiiiflies the 

 fcene. The furrounding hills, rocks, and 

 Icattered pendent woods, are all romantic 

 and fublime, and tend nobly to fet off this 

 mofl: exquifite touch of rural elegance. In 

 Plate I. is the fketch I took of it. 



Following the coaft you fail rouiid a 

 fweet little ifland, a clump of wood grow- 

 ing out of the lake -, but it is joined to 

 the main land when the Water is very low* 

 From helnCe, perfuing the voyage^ you 

 come into the narrow part of the lake, 

 and have a full view of moft romantic 

 terrible craggy rocks, incloling a mofl: grand 

 and beautiful cafcade : It is a view that 

 mufl: aftonifh the fpe(5tator. You look up 

 to two dreadful pointed rocks, of a vaft 

 height, which almoft hang over your head, 

 partly fclttered with fhrubby wood, in the 

 wildeft tafte of nature. Between them is 

 a dreadful precipice of broken craggy rock, 

 over which a raging tofrent foams down 

 in one vaft fheet of Water, feveral yards 

 wide, juft broken into ebullitions by the 

 points of the rocks unfeen. At anpthef 

 L 2 tim<J 



