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different: This fcene is ft-queflered, and will 

 naturally tempt the fpeftator to flop to admire 

 the mild but pleafmg beauties of the fpot. 



The walk winds up the hill by the fide of a 

 continued cafcade, the water falling in fiiaii flieets 

 from rock to rock in a moft juil ftilej on one 

 fide a thick wood, and on the other a rocky 

 bank, fringed with flirubs. This leads to Kent\ 

 feat, and alcove, from which the landfcape is ia 

 the pure flile of ornamented nature : If you 

 iuppofe art to appear, it is xh^ /implex inunditiis 

 of defign. — In front, at the diilance of a few- 

 yards, is a double cafcade-, the water guflies 

 from a dark fpot, half rock, half wood, and 

 failing on a bed of the former has but a fhort 

 courfe before it falls a fjcond time into the rill 

 before mentioned, which winds over a bed of 

 ftone at your feet; thefe parts of the fcenery 

 are furrounded by a little amphitheatre of thick 

 wood, and form upon the whole a moft beautiful 

 pidure ; it may not be admired by thofe who 

 are fond only of the greats but to fuch as are 

 pleafed with the foft tints of nature's pencil — 



this landfcape v/ill yield pure enjoyment. 



Nor is this all i for turning your eye a little to 

 the left, you catch through a fmall, and, to ap- 

 pearance, natural opening in the trees, a view ot ^ 

 fcoop of hanging woods i and beyond, a.diftant 

 profped : one of the raoll complete bird's-eye 

 landfcapes in the world. 



Continuing this walk you mount to the top of 

 the hill, and there arrive at a fpot called Mowbray 

 Point, The building (called the Ruin) has a 

 little area before it, froni which you command 

 a prodigious profpedt, You look dnedly down 

 m an fine winding valley, the river appearing 

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