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in the terrace opening in the wood ; above it, 

 the green hills with clumps, and the whole 

 fmifhing in the noble group of wood about the 

 abbey, which here appears a deep {hade, and 

 fo fine a finiming one, that not a tree ihould 

 be touched. Rowed to the eafl point of Rofs, 

 which is well wooded, turn to the fouth coaft. 

 Doubling the point, the mod beautiful fhore 

 of that ifland appears ; it is the well wooded 

 environs of a bay, except a fmall opening to 

 the caftle ; the woods are in deep fhades, and 

 rife on the regular Hopes of a high range of 

 rocky coaft. The part in front of Filekilly 

 point rifes in the middle, and finks towards 

 each end. The woods of Tomys here appeal- 

 uncommonly fine. Open Innisfailen, which 

 is compofed at this diftance of the mofl various 

 fhades, within a broken outline, entirely dif- 

 ferent from the other iflands, groups of dif- 

 ferent mafles rifing in irregular tufts, and 

 joined by lower trees. No pencil could mix a 

 happier aflemblage, Land near a miferable 



room, where travellers dine Of the ifle of 



Innisfailen, it is paying no great compliment 

 to fay, it is the mod beautiful in the king's 

 dominions, and perhaps in Europe. It con- 

 tains twenty acres of land, and has every va- 

 riety that the range of beauty, unmixed with 

 the fublime, can give. The general feature 

 is that of wood j the furface undulates into 

 iwelling hills, and finks into little vales; the 

 Hopes are in every direction, the declivities die 

 gently away, forming thofe flight inequalities 

 which are the greateft beauty of drefled 

 grounds. The little vallies let in views of the 



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