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period, the taste which has hitherto so unfortunately prevailed, 

 will be reversed, and the country become the admired residence 

 of those, who are most able to improve its natural features, by 

 the assistance of the arts. There it is, that virtue and patriot- 

 ism, benevolence and hospitality, philosophy and religion, inno- 

 cence and poetry have most delighted to dwell. It was on the 

 summits of mountains, or in the awe-inspiring shadows of the 

 deep forest, that the ancient divinities were worshipped ; and 

 how much more appropriately are they the true temples of the 

 living God ; for where can man more fitly pour out his aspira- 

 tions and present the offerings of gratitude and praise, than 

 when standing under the blue vault of the firmament, amidst 

 the sublime and glorious works of creation. 



