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taking the bye road to the turnpike, (not 

 that by which you came) mount the hill 

 without turning your head (if I was your 

 guide I would condudl you behind a fmall 

 hill, that you might come at once upon the 

 view) till you almoft gain the top, when 

 you will be ftruck with aftoni(hment at the 

 profpe(3: fprcad forth at your feet, which, 

 if not the moft fuperlative view that nature 

 can exhibit, fhe is more fertile in beauties 

 than the reach of my imagination will al- 

 low me to conceive. It would be mere 

 vanity to attempt to defcribe a fcene which 

 beggars all defcription, but that you may- 

 have fome faint idea of the outlines of this 

 wonderful pi<5lure, I will juft give the par- 

 ticulars of which it conlifts. 



The point on which you ftand is the fide 

 of a large ridge of hills that form the eaftern 

 boundaries of the lake, and the lituation 

 high enough to look down upon all the ob- 

 jedls : A circumftance of great importance, 

 and vi'hich painting cannot imitate: In 

 landfcapes, you are either on a level with 

 the objects, or look up to them; the painter 

 cannot give the declivity at your feet, which 

 leffens the objeds as much in the perpendi- 

 cular line as in his horizontal one. 



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