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away ; while we look up, on each fide, to 

 the umbrageous eminences, which leave 

 us only themfelves, the water, and the 

 iky, we are imprefled with a fenfe of fo- 

 lemn feclufion, and might fancy ourfelves 

 in the folitudes of Tinian or Juan-Fer- 

 nandes. The trees and flirubs which, from 

 fuch great elevation, impend over the 

 flood, give it their own green tint without 

 leflening its tranfparency. Glafly fmooth, 

 this lake has not a wave till within a few 

 yards of its precipitance. But it is time to 

 introduce Dr. Darwin's verfes, already 

 mentioned. They were written before the 

 exiftence of the Lake, and while the brook, 

 which formed it, had the filence imputed 

 to it by the poet. 



Addrefs of a Water Nymph, at Belmont, to the Owner 

 of that place. 



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O I Friend to Peace and Virtue, ever flows 



For thee roy filent and unfnllied ftream, 



Pure 



