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general to the fcenes features of great magni- 

 ficence. PafTed Sir John Hafler's, on the op- 

 pofite fide of the river, finely fituated, and 

 Mr. Nicholfon's farm on this fide, who has 

 very extenfive copfes, which line the river. 

 Coming in fight of Sir W. Fownes's, the fce- 

 nery is ftriking, the road mounts the fide of 

 the hill, and commands the river at the bot- 

 tom of the declivity, with groups of trees 

 prettily fcattered about, and the little borough 

 of Innifteague in a moil picturefque fituati- 

 on, the whole bounded by mountains. Crofs 

 the bridge, and going through the town, take 

 a path that leads to a fmall building in the 

 woods, called Mount Sandford ; it is at the 

 top of a rocky declivity almoft perpendicular, 

 but with brufh wood growing from the rocks. 

 At the bottom is the river, which comes from 

 the right from behind a very bold hanging 

 wood, that feems to unite with the hill on 

 the oppofite fhore: at this pafs the river fills 

 the vale, but it widens by degrees, and pre- 

 fents various reaches, intermixed with little 

 tufts of trees, the bridge we paffed over is 

 half hid. Innifteague is mixed with them, 

 and its buildings backed by a larger wood, 

 give variety to the fcene. Oppofite to the 

 point of view there are fome pretty inclofures, 

 fringed with wood, and a line of cultivated 

 mountain fides, with their bare tops limit the 

 whole. 



Taking my leave of Mr. Bufhe, I followed 

 the road to Rofs. PafTed Woodilock, of 



which 



