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very little stretch of imagination, will enable 

 you to recall a familiar paragraph from 

 "Lear," and almost realize the picture the 

 poet has so graphically drawn : 



" Half- way down 



Hangs one that gathers samphire : dreadful trade ! 

 Me thinks he seems no bigger than his head." 



Elevated about 1,000 feet above the 

 level of the sea, you have one of the 

 most magnificent and picturesque views 

 the mind can contemplate from such a 

 position. In vain the eye attempts to 

 rest upon any particular object, except 

 at its extreme points. On the right 

 the hill that bounds the sight in that 

 direction, upholds the little town of Nettle- 

 bed in Oxfordshire ; while on the left the 

 eye can distinctly perceive an object in 

 Tonbridge Wells, at a distance of 130 miles, 

 across steep hills and deep ravines; heath 

 and forest, glebe and meadow, presenting a 

 landscape that bids defiance to the art of 

 man to describe. 



