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nuine only, in receiving my intelligence from 

 fenfible inhabitants. 



ner. It leads down to the river (here a fmooth 

 and gentle current) through a wild rugged way, 

 and there brings you to another Ihore of pen- 

 dent, craggy, broken rock, fringed with wood : 

 In one place, almoft under the dairy, it bulges 

 forth in a vaft projecting body, almoft threat- 

 ning to thunder into the river, and obftruct every 

 drop of its ftream. The walk takes a wind- 

 ing courfe through a thick wood, to the terras 

 in front of the houfe, from which the view is 

 totally different from any of the preceding •, it 

 looks down upon a deep winding valley, quite 

 rilled with wood : A fine bending hollow — The 

 noife of the river at bottom, raging over the 

 rocks, is heard, but no where feen ; nor can any 

 thing be more romantic than this effect : For 

 looking down into the hollow, without perceiving 

 the water, the imagination at once takes fire, and 

 pictures a horrible depth of precipice, far beyond 

 the truth ; but in which it is fomewhat affifted by 

 the thicknefs of the wood breaking the line of 

 found. 



Upon the whole, Cocken has received noble 

 gifts from nature, and the afiiftance (he has had 

 from art has been the v/ork of an elegant fancy, 

 conducted by as correct a tafte. 



In the houfe are feveral pictures, which pleafe 

 the lovers of that noble art. 

 Trevzfana. Lot and his daughters. The colour- 

 ing is flrong, and the expreffion fpirited : 

 Nor is it wanting in the effect of the 

 clear obfcure. 



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