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 villages, clumps of wood, houfes, bridges, 

 trees, &c. A fine river takes the moft 

 beautiful ferpentine courfe in the world 

 through it : The oppofite bank is a large 

 ridge of mountain. It is a fweet landfcape, 

 which brings to ones imagination the idea 

 of an Arcadian paradife. 



The approach to the lake is very pidtu- 

 refque : You pafs between two high ridges 

 of mountain, the banks finely fpread with 

 inclofures j upon the right two fmall beau- 

 tiful hills, one of them covered with 

 wood; they are moft pleafingly elegant. 

 The lake is a fmall one, about three miles 

 long, half a mile over in fome places, 

 and a quarter in others j almoft divided in 

 the middle by a promontory of inclofures, 

 joining only by a ftreight ; fo that it confifts 

 of tw\) fheets of water. The upper end of 

 it is fine, quite inclofed with bold fteep 

 craggy rocks and mountains ; and in the 

 center of the end a few little inclofures at 

 their feet, waving upwards in a very beau- 

 tiful manner. The fouth fide of the lake 

 is a noble ridge of mountain, very bold and 

 prominent down to the waters edge. They 

 bulge out in the center in a fine bold pen- 

 dent 



