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of ruin, which occupy the Hope. At the 

 bottom you are received by a clean, fandy 

 beach, where, at the ebb of the tide, you 

 may continue your walk many miles. 



The houfe is a fumptuous pile ; and contains 

 much curiolity : but we were in queft only of 

 fcenery. Lord Bute Jias made an attempt to 

 adorn the cliff around him with a plantation. 

 But if it fhould not thrive, as I think it hardly 

 can, the lofs perhaps is not great. Trees, in 

 fo expofed a iituation, may perhaps juft get 

 hold of the ground : but it is impoflible for 

 them to produce either flielter, or ornament. 

 Indeed in views of this kind, it may be 

 doubted, whether the rural idea (hould not 

 purpofely be excluded, as interfering with the 

 native grandeur of the fcene. Flowers, and 

 flowering fhrubs at leaft feem alien beauties. 



As we leave lord Bute's, the country ftill 

 continues flat, cultivated, and inclofed. Scarce 

 a fmgle opening prefents itfelf. We obferved 

 however one fpecies of landfcape, which in fo 

 flat a furface, is Angular — thofe hoUov^s, or 

 dells mentioned in the general view of the 

 foreft*, running acrofs it to the fea. They have 



* See page 52. 



G 3 not 



