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commerce, I tried to get, but in vain ; fuch 

 as I procured are inierted in a very few 

 words ; but I can aniwer for their being ge- 



Oppofite the abbey the rocks give a fine curve, 

 and under th< m the river and terrafs wind in the 

 mod beautiful manner : It is here quite an am- 

 phitheatre of wood and rock ; wild, romantic, 

 and fublime. 



Seating yourfelf on a bench upon the little hill 

 under the rock, with an elm in front, the view is 

 very ftriking. To the right the wall of rocks 

 prefents its bold front, the river lofing itfelf un- 

 der them, and the oppofite deep of wood. To 

 the left a wave of woody hill. 



Coming to the turn of the walk, the profpect 

 back upon the rocks is prodigioufly fine : They 

 are feen as it were in perfpeclive, and their tops, 

 all crowned with oaks, have a great effect. 



Winding up to the alcove on the hill to the 

 right, you fee a range of fteep woods, hanging 

 over broken rocks, in a ftile peculiar : At a 

 diftance a fear of rock quite embofomed in a 

 thick wood : The river winds through the val- 

 ley beneath, and breaking into feveral diftinct 

 meets of water, throw a beautiful variety over 

 this romantic fcene ; it lofes itfelf to the left un- 

 der another fweep of hanging woods : You look 

 down upon the ruined abbey, on the oppofite 

 banks of the river, in a hollow. Above it, rifes 

 in front a waving hill, cut into inclofures j and, 

 overall, an extenfive diftant profpect. 



From hence, croffing a few inclofures to come 

 again into the ornamented grounds, the path you 

 enter winds on the brink of a woody precipice, 

 which you look in a very romantic man- 

 ner. 



