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is feen as a back ground with an effect more 

 pidurefque than can be well imagined; thefe 

 few trees, and this little lawn, give the finiili- 

 ing to the fcene. The water falls behind fome 

 large fragments of rock, and turns to the left, 

 down a ftony channel, under the fhadc of a 

 wood. 



Returning to Tinnyhinch, I went to fnnif- 

 kerry, and gained by this detour in my return 

 to go to the Dargle, a beautiful view which I 

 fhould otberwjfe have loft; the road runs on 

 the edge of a declivity, from whence there is 

 a moft pleafing profpecl: of the river's courfe 

 through the vale, and the wood qf Powers- 

 court, which here appear in large malTes of 

 dark ihade, the whole bounded by mountains. 

 Turn to the left into the private road that 

 leads to the Dargle, and prefently gives a fpe- 

 cimen of what is to be expecled by a romantic 

 glen of wood, where the high lands almoft 

 lock into each other, and leave fcarce a pafTage 

 for the river at bottom, which rages, as if 

 with difficulty forcing its way. It is topped 

 by a high mountain, and in front you catch 

 a beaufiful plat of inclofures bounded by the 

 fea. Enter the Dargle, which is the name of 

 a Glen near a mile long. Come prefently to 

 one of the fineft ranges of wood I have any 

 where feen : it is a narrow sjen or vale form' 

 ed by the fides of two oppoiite mountains ; 

 the whole thickly fpread with oak wood, at 

 the bottom (and the depth is immenfe), it is 

 narrowed to the mere channel of the river, 

 which rather tumbles from rock to rock than 



runs. 



