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gi noble winding river ; at others retiring 

 from it, and opening large fwelling bays, as 

 if for navies to anchor in; promontories 

 Ipread with woods, or fcattered with trees 

 and inclofures, projed:ing into the water 

 in the mod pidurcfque flile imaginable : 

 rocky points breaking the fliore, and rear- 

 ing their bold heads above the water. In 

 a word, a variety that amazes the be- 

 holder. 



But what finifhes the fcene with an ele- 

 gance too delicious to be imagined, is, this 

 beautiful fheet of water being dotted with 

 no lefs than ten iflands, diftindly com- 

 manded by the eye ; all of the moll: be- 

 witching beauty. The large one prefents 

 a waving various line, which rifes from the 

 water in the mod pidurefque inequalities 

 of furface : high land in one place, low in 

 another; clumps of trees in this fpot, fcat- 

 tered ones in that ; adorned by a farm- 

 houfe on the water's edge, and backed with 

 a little wood, vycing in fimple elegance 

 with Boromean palaces : Some of the fmaller 

 ifles rifing from the lake like little hills of 

 wood, fome only fcattered with trees, and 

 others of grafs of the finefl verdure; a 

 fnore beautiful variety no where to be feen. 



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