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of success ; and yet we know not why ; a priori, 

 one would say, that a plant which is even too 

 common in Monmouthshire and Herefordshire 

 could not be rare in Westmoreland ; but, in 

 truth, advanced as botanical science is, there is 

 little known as to the habitats of plants in the 

 way of idiosyncrasy and causation. 



AMICUS. This little village of Eydal delights 

 me ; its situation, its neatness, the happy 

 admixture of the lowly cottage and substantial 

 dwelling, with its becoming chapel, all so 

 accordant! What is its history, if history it 

 has ? 



PISCATOR. It is almost entirely a dependance 

 of the adjoining Hall, and a good example of 

 the feudal dependency mitigated by modern 

 usage. The cottages are occupied chiefly by 

 old servants, they and their houses older than 

 the chapel, which, as you may judge from its 

 style, is a modern erection. You will find its 

 story in two interesting poems of Wordsworth 

 dedicated to it, and in one of them an explana- 

 tion at once poetical, and I believe true, of the 

 direction, pointing to the east, 



" That symbol of day-spring from on high," 

 of our sacred buildings. 



