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fill an unbroken extent of fix miles in length, 

 and from half a mile to a mile and a half in 

 breadth, all hanging on the fides of two vaft 

 mountains, and coming down with a full robe 

 of rich luxuriance to the very water's edge. The 

 acclivity of thefe hills is fuch, that every tree ap- 

 pears full to the eye. The variety of the ground is 

 great ; in fome places great fwells in the moun- 

 tain fide, with correfponding hollows, prefent 

 concave and convex maffes ; in others, confi- 

 derable ridges of land and rock rife from the 

 fweep, and offer to the aftonifhed eye yet other 

 varieties of fhade. Smaller mountains rife' re- 

 gularly from the immenfe bofom of the larger, 

 and hold forth their fylvan heads, backed by 

 yet higher woods. To give all the varieties of 

 this immenfe fcenery of foreft is impoflible. 

 Above the whole is a prodigious mafs of moun- 

 tain, of a gently fweliing outline and foft ap- 

 pearance, varying as the fun or clouds change 

 their pofition, but never becoming rugged, or 

 threatening to the eye. 



The variations are beft feen by rowing near 

 the fhore, when very ftroke of the oar gives a 

 new outline, and frefh tints to pleafe the eye : 

 but for one great impreffion, row about two 

 miles from the fhore of Glena; at that diftance 

 the inequalities in the furface are no longer 

 feen, but the eye is filled with fo immenfe a 

 range of wood, crowned with a mountain in 

 perfect unifon with itfelf, that objects, whofe 

 character is that of beauty, are here, from their 

 magnitude, truly magnificent, and attended 



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