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yielded good crops of corn, within .^o years, 

 are now over-run with whins, brakes, and 



contraft of a ftriking nature. I cannot, how- 

 ever, omit remarking, that perhaps the general 

 effeft would have been greater from this point of 

 view,, had all the oppofne hills been planted ; as 

 the prodigious magnificence of fb noble a range 

 of v/ood would have been ftriking at the firft 

 view ; the very extenr, in fuch a fituarion, 

 which prefents every tree to the eye, would alone 

 have had a great effeft : So that, allowing the 

 full forc:^ of the contraft refulting from the vv^aile 

 hill, which certainly is confide"- ib)e, yet as it 

 divides a planted hanging one, than which nothing 

 can be a greater beauty, it has its attendant dif- 

 advantages. May I further be permitted to 

 obferve, the terraffes being cut in right lines, 

 v/ith a ftrait edge, and flope from it to the 

 edge of the precipice ; and the yew-hedges en the 

 other fide being dipt in tiie exaf^ell line of fonn, 

 are, circumftanccs which act in a very different 

 ftile from, the wonders beneath, where the bold 

 touches of nature's pencil, are graces ihatched 

 beyond the reach of art; rather diffonant from 

 fuch regular works. 



This temple is a circular room finifhing in a 

 dome, the ornaments whit- and ?,old in mol'aics i 

 and four ftatues as large as life in niches. 



But thefe ornamented grounds are not the 

 only ones boafted of by Dtincombe Park \ at the 

 diftance of about two miles, is another called 

 Rycvars Abbey ^ from the ruins of an antient one. 

 It i<i a moft: bewitching fpot. 



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