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the land in general good, and let very high. 

 That town is too famous in the path of 



it is a grea~ omiflion in any traveller to pais 



'• .ur ' em : That Gentleman and his 



MaryCarr, have both given much 

 • che affifting nature in their very beau- 

 ot, by rendering her accefTible. 



Cocken has the advantage of a fine river, in 

 fome places very rapid, and in others calm and 

 fmoothj it takes a waving courfe through the 

 grounds, and has the noble advantage of a 

 various fhoar, in fome places compofed of noble 

 rocks, in others of hanging woods, and alfo of 

 cultivated inclofures : Art has judicioufly aimed 

 at nothing more than enabling the fpe&'ator to 

 view thefe beauties to the belt advantage. 



The firfr. point to which we were conducted, is 

 a feat in a fmall circular plot, among the wood, 

 north of the houfe, from which ( llceple is 



caught in a very pifturefque manner, between 

 two projecting hills of wood : The fpor. is on the 

 brink of a precipice, at the bottom of which the 

 river bends very finely : The country is in gene- 

 ral wild and uncultivated ; but to the left is a 

 hill of wood, which varies the fcene. 



Winding a little to the left, the walk leads to 

 the dairy, from which, though very near the feat 

 juft defcribed, the view is at once quite different. 

 The country is now cultivated, the river divides, 

 and you command it both ways. To the right is 

 a fear of rock, crowned with pendent wood. 



You are next conducted down the hill, and 

 purfue the walk around a large meadow upon 

 rhe banks of the river 5 it then enters a wood un- 

 der a moil romantic wall of rock \ the walk (a 



te: 



