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hanging in a very noble manner, but part cut 

 down, much of it 'mangled, and the reft inha- 

 bited by coopers, boat-builders, carpenters, 

 and turners, a facrilegious tribe, who have 

 turned the Dryades from their ancient habita- 

 tions. The cafcade here is a fine one, bu 

 pafled quickly from hence to fcenes unmixed 

 with pain. 



Row to the clutter of the Seven Iflands, a 

 little archipelago ; they rife very boldly from 

 the water upon rocky bafes, and are crowned 

 in the moft beautiful manner with wood, among 

 which are a number of arbutus j the channels 

 among them opening to new fcenes, and the 

 great amphitheatre of rock and mountain that 

 furround them, unite to form a noble view. 



Into the river, at the very end of the lake, 

 which winds towards Mac Gilly Cuddy's 

 Reeks in fanciful meanders. 



Returned by a courfe fomewhat different, 

 through the Seven Iflands, and back to the 

 Eagle's Neft, viewing the fcenes already men- 

 tioned in new pofitions. At that noble rock 

 fired three cannon for the echo, which indeed 

 *s prodigious j the report does not confift of 

 direcl: reverberations from one rock to another 

 with a paufe between, but has an exact re* 

 femblance to a peal of thunder rattling be^ 

 hind the rock, as if travelling the whole fcene- 

 ry we had viewed and loft in th<* immenfity of 

 Mac Gilly Cuddy's Reeks, 



i Returning 



