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capable of very great improvement, even to 

 doubling the rents. Now it is highly worthy 

 of remark, that the hufbandry of thefe far- 

 mers is univerfally bad ; — their fields in a 

 flovenly condition ; and of fo little encou,- 



meanders of the river are bold and well broken 

 by fcattered trees •, the cafcade almofl over-hung 

 with the pendant wood ; the tufcan temple crown- 

 ing a bank of wood, form together a diftindk 

 landfcape, in which every obj^6t is fuch as the 

 warmed fancy would with for, or the correfteft 

 tafte approve. 



This view is beheld with a moving variation 

 as you walk along the terrafs, towards the Tufcan 

 temple, with frelh objefts breaking upon the 

 eye as you advance : That building being fituated 

 at the point of what one may call a promontory 

 of high land, projefting into a winding valley, 

 and planted, the views from it are doubled ; an- 

 other terrafs then appearing, the temple com- 

 mands fuch various fcenes of the iublime and 

 beautiful as to form a theatre worthy tlie magni- 

 ficent pencil of nature. 



To the left you look upon the valley already 

 defcribed, with great advantage, for the hang- 

 ing woods on the oppofite fide are fcen in a much 

 greater bending extent than from the former 

 point of view, and have an cffeft really glorious : 

 The valley, the river, and the cafcade, are ktn 

 beneath you at a depth that prefents a full view 

 of every incloiure-, the bank of wood againft 

 the garden m.akes a curve, which has a fine 

 appearance, bounded at the top by the ionic 



temple i 



