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formers in the concert. Some of thefe you 

 hear continually burfting out either at hand, 

 or from a diftance : while the various little 

 chirpers of the woods join the chorus: and 

 tho alone their untuneable voices might be 

 harfh ; yet all together (one foftening the 

 difcordancy of another) they make a kind 

 of melody ; or at leaft an agreeable contrail to 

 fuch of the band, as are better {killed in their 

 buiinefs* 



I cannot leave this river-fcene, without 

 obferving, that altho it is pidturefque in a 

 high degree ; yet it exhibits fuch a fpecimen 

 of the pi6lurefque (if I may fpeak in terms 

 feemingly contradictory) as is not well cal- 

 culated to make a picflure. The whole is 

 a fucceffion of thofe fofter, namelefs beauties ; 

 which highly pleafe ; but cannot eafily be 

 defcribed. Various beautiful accompaniments are 

 exhibited ; but firiking objeBs are wanting. 

 If every reach had been adorned with a caftle, 

 or a pifturefque rock, fuch as capt. King's 

 uninterejling river would have afforded, each 

 fuccejjive fcene would have been more pic- 

 turefquely fnarked; tho the chara5ier of the 



river. 



