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have already troubled you with feveral re^ 

 citals of thefe water expeditions, I ihall 

 only mention a few of the principal points 

 of view, and to which I ihould particularly 

 recommend any traveller to row if he had 

 not time to view the whole lake ; but no 

 fcheme of this fort can be more amufing 

 than two or three days fpent here in 

 rowing, failing, hlhing, and wild duck 

 fhooting, all which are here to be had 

 in great perfedtion ; and I fliould add, 

 that the end of May^ or the beginning 

 of June, is the proper time for fuch an ex- 

 pedition. 



Taking boat at the village, you row firft 

 to The IJland, fo called by way of pre- 

 eminence, being by much the largefl in 

 the lake; it contains between thirty and 

 forty acres of land, and I cannot but think 

 it the fweeteft fpot, and full of the greateft 

 capabilities, of any forty acres in the king's 

 dominions. The view from the fouth end is 

 very line ; the lake prefents a moft noble 

 Iheet of water ftretching away for feveral 

 miles, and bounded in front by diftant 

 mountains ; the {hoars beautifully indented 

 by promontories covered with wood, and 



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