125 MEMOIRS OF 



duced the inhabitants of Lichfield tb build 

 a cold bath in the bofom of the vale. 

 That, till the doftor took it into his pof- 

 feffion, was the only mark of human 

 int\uftry which could be found in the 

 tangled and fequeftered fcene. 



One of its native features had long 

 excited the attention of the curious ; a 

 rock, which, in the central depth of the 

 glen, drops perpetually, about three times 



in a minute. Aquatic plants border its 

 top and branch from its fnTures. No 

 length of fummer drought abates, no rains 

 increafe its humidity, mr froft congeals its 

 droppings. The Doftor cultivated this 

 fpot, 



" And Paradife was open'd in the wild." 



In fome parts he widened the brook 

 into fmall lakes, that mirrored the valley ; 

 in others, he taught it to wind between 

 fhrubby margins. Not only with trees of 



various 



