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fhore : thefe rife in an outline, fo varied, and 

 at the fame time fo magnificent, that nothing 

 greater can be imagined ; Tomys and Glena ex- 

 hibit an immenfity in point of magnitude, but 

 from a large hanging wood on the flope, and 

 from the fmoothnefs of the general furface, it 

 has nothing favage, whereas the mountains 

 above and near the Eagle's-neft are of the moft 

 broken outlines ; the declivities are bulging 

 rocks, of immenfe fize, which feem to impend 

 in horrid forms over the lake, and where an 

 opening among them is caught, others of the 

 fame rude character, rear their threatening 

 heads. From different parts of the terrafs 

 thefe fcenes are viewed in numberlefs va- 

 rieties. 



Returned to breakfaft, and purfued Mr. 

 Herbert's new road, which he has traced thro* 

 the peninfula to Dynis ifland, three miles in 

 length ; and it is carried in fo judicious a 

 manner through a great variety of ground, 

 rocky woods, lawns, &c. that nothing can be 

 more pleafing; it paries through a remarkable 

 fcene of rocks, which are covered with woods; 

 from thence to the marble quarry, which Mr. 

 Herbert is working ; and where he gains va- 

 riety of marbles, green, red, white, and brown, 

 prettily veined; the quarry is a fhore of rocks, 

 which furround a bay of the lake, and forms 

 a fcene, confiding of but few parts, but thofe 

 jftronglv marked ; the rocks are bold, and 

 broken into flight caverns; they are fringed 

 with fcattered trees, and from many parts of 

 3 them 



