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ragement to them Is the lownefs of their 

 rents, that msLnj large trads of hind that 



temple ; in front, between tlie hills, an extenfive 

 woody valley opens beautifully variegated : An 

 old tower, Helmfiey church, and the town icattered 

 with clumps of trees, are \Q.t\\ in the midft of it 

 at thofe points of tade which make one almoft 



think them the effects of dcfign. Turning 



from this noble pidlure to the right, a freih one 



is beheld, differing fomcwhat from the former, 



but yet in unifon with it in the emotions which 



it raifes. The valley continues to wind v/ithin 



a hollow of furrounding hills, that throw an 



awful fublimity over the whole fcene •, they are 



covered with hanginp; woods, the brownnefs of 



which fets off the beauty of the river in a ilriking 



manner. It is here feen m a greater breadth, 



and as you look upon the line of its ccurfe, the 



fun-beams pkiying on its current throw a iuftre 



on this fequeftered fcene furprizingly elegant. A 



cafcade in view, adds the beauties of motion and 



found to thofe numerous ones already mentioned. 



The views therefore from this temple con fid 



principally of two valleys, one to the right, the 



other to the left ; neither of them are to be ^ttn 



from the other, but both commanded by the 



point of the projediing hill, upon v/hich the 



' temple is fituated. The oppofite woods 



which form of each vale an amphitheatre, 



are divided in front of this temple by a 



fwelling hill, fcatrered over with fern and other 



rubbifn •, the effeft is good ; different from all 



the furrounding ones, and prefenns to the eye a 



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