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in view from the edge of a declivity. You 

 look full upon the houfe, which appears to be 

 in the moft beautiful fituation in the world, 

 on the fide of a mountain, half way between 

 its bare top, and an irriguous vale at its foot. 

 In front, and fpreading among woods on either 

 fide, is a lawn whofe furface is beautifully 

 varied in gentle declivities, hanging to a wind- 

 ing river. 



Lowering the hill the fcenery is yet more 

 agreeable, the near inclofures are margined 

 with trees, through whofe open branches are 

 feen whole fields of the molt lively verdure. 

 The trees gather into groups, and the lawn 

 fwells into gentle inequalities, while the river 

 winding beneath renders the, whole truly pleaf- 

 ing. 



Breakfafted at the inn at Tinnyhinch, and 

 then drove to the park to fee the water-fill. 

 The park itfelf is fine j you enter it between 

 two vaft manes of mountain, covered with 

 wood, forming a vale fcattered with trees, 

 through which flows a river on a broken rocky 

 channel: you follow this vale till it is loft in 

 a moil uncommon manner, the ridges of moun- 

 tain doling;, form one great amphitheatre of 

 wood, from the top of which, at the height 

 of many hundred feet, burffs the water from 

 a rock, and tumbling down the fide of a very 

 large one, forms a fcene fingularly beautiful.. 

 At the bottom is a fpot of velvet turf, from 

 w T hich rifes a clump of oaks, and through their 

 flems, branches, and leaves, the falling wat;r 



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