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You look down upon a noble winding 

 valley of about twelve miles long, every 

 where inclofed with grounds which rife in 

 a very bold and various manner j in fome 

 places bulging into mountains, abrupt, wild> 

 and uncultivated ; in others, breaking into 

 rocks, craggy, pointed, and irregular : Here, 

 riling into hills covered with the nobleft 

 woods, prefenting a gloomy brownnefs of 

 ihade, almoft from the clouds to the reflec- 

 tion of the trees in the limpid water they 

 fo beautifully fkirt : There, waving in glo- 

 rious Hopes of cultivated inclofures, adorn- 

 ed in the fweetefl manner with every ob- 

 je£l that can give variety to art, or ele^ 

 gance to nature; trees, woods, villages, 

 houfes, farms, fcattered with pidturefque 

 confufion, and waving to the eye in the 

 moft romantic landfcapes that nature can 

 exhibit. 



This valley, fo beautifully inclofed, is 

 floated by the lake, which fpreads forth to 

 the right and left in one vaft but irregular 

 expanfe of tranfparent water. A more no- 

 ble objedl can hardly be imagined. Its im- 

 mediate flioar is traced in every variety of 

 line that fancy can imagine, fometimes 

 contradling the lake into the appearance of 



a noble 



