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narrower. The whole is covered with loofe 

 pebbles. The fide towards the ifland is a 

 bold Ihore ; beaten into ledges, or terraces 

 of pebbles, by the violence of the waves. 

 The other fide, which is fheltered, is un- 

 dulating, marlhy, and undetermined ; forming 

 the water, when the tide flows, into a fmooth 

 land-locked bay. The fkirts of this bay, 

 well fheltered from the tide by Hurft-beach, 

 are commodioufly formed into falterns, where 

 great quantities of excellent fait have been 

 made -, tho the trade has of late fallen off. 

 The fquare, bounded receptacles which re- 

 ceive the brine, 'are a glaring injury to the 

 beauty of the fhore. 



From the little peninfula, on which Hurft- 

 caftle ftands, you are entertained with views 

 on each hand. The ifland, and the Needle- 

 rocks are objed:s, dreary, vafl:, and grand ; and 

 not wholly unpifturefque. But to make them 

 objedts of the pencil, they mufl: be well in- 

 lightened, and the fore-ground adorned with 

 a little naval furniture — an anchor, a net hang- 

 ing to dry, a drifted boat, or fome other 

 objedt, with which fea-coafl:s abound. When 

 I firft faw this fcene, it was in a fultry fummer- 

 noon, and all the cliffs were overfpread with 



that 



