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the woods behind fheltered them from the 

 fun ', and formed a good back-ground to their 



feveral pidturefque groups. The front of 



this grand reach maintained long the fame 

 appearance, confiding chiefly of woody grounds 

 foftened by diftance. Nor did the fide-lkreens 

 vary much. Continued woods ftill rofe on the 

 left ; and on the right a portion of rough paf- 

 turage, adorned, here, and there, with fingle 

 trees fcattered about it. 



We now came in fight of Buckler's-hard * 

 on the left, where the large timber-yards, 

 houfes, and fliips on the flocks, made a violent 

 chafm in the landfcape. A quantity of timber 

 .fcattered about a yard, makes a very unpic- 

 turefque appearance. It affords a variety of 

 parts without a whole. And yet in a timber- 

 yard, there are fheds and other circumflances, 

 which are not wholly void of pi(5turefque images. 

 In a fhip on the ftocks, through every flage as 

 it advances, there is a degree of beauty, which 

 confifts chiefly in the variety of it's fweeping 

 lines. 



* See an account of Buckler's-hard page 137. The word 

 Harr/ fignifies only a firm landing-place made upon the mud. 



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