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But if you would have a vigorous culture 

 go forwards, throw 15 or 20 of thefe farms 



hills give a proper termination to the whole 

 view. 



Further on from this fpot, you look down a 

 fteep precipice almoft on the tops of the ruins •, 

 the fituation quite romantic : Beyond it, the 

 valley appears with feme variations in its ufual 

 beauty ; and turning your head to the fcenes you 

 have left, a bridge of three arches thrown over 

 the river, catches your fight in a ipot which adds 

 o-reatly to the view. The oppofite banks are 

 fpread with hanging woods, and above them 

 the uncultivated hills appear in irregular pro- 

 je6lions. 



Before you arrive at the portico, the fcene is 

 much varied-, hitherto an edging of flirubby 

 wood along the brink of the precipice hides its 

 immediate flecpnefs from your eye, but here it 

 is broken away, and you look down on the abbey 

 in a bolder manner than before ; the trees are 

 wildly Icattered, and all the other objeds feen in 

 great beauty. 



I'he view from tlie ionic temple is a noble 

 one, equal to any of the foregoing, and different 

 from all. A llrong wave in tlie line of tlie terras 

 prefents a view of its own woody il:eep bank, 

 rifin^T in a beautiful manner to the tufcan temple, 

 which crowns its top. The abbey is icen in a 

 new but full view •, the bridge finely encompaffed 

 with hanging trees : The range of pendant woods 

 that fringe the oppofite hills appear almoft in full 



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