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through the gates, turn to the left, about 200 

 yards to the edge of the hill, where' the whole 

 domain lies beneath the point of view, it is a 

 promontory, three miles long, projecting into 

 the lake, a beautiful aifemblage of wood and 

 lawn, one end a thick (hade, the other grafs, 

 fcattered with trees, and finishing with wood. 

 A bay of the lake breaks into the eaftern end, 

 where it is perfectly wooded : there are fix or 

 feven iflands among them, (that of Bow three 

 mijes long, and one and a half broad) yet they 

 leave a noble fweep of water, bounded by the 

 great range of the Turaw mountains. To the 

 right, the lake takes the appearance of a fine 

 river, with two large iilands in it, the whole 

 unites to form one of the mod glorious fcenes 

 I ever beheld. Rode to the little hill above 

 Michael Macgu ire's cabbing here the two great 

 promontories of wood join in one, but open in 

 the middle, and give a view of the lake, quite 

 funounded with wood, as if a diftincl water; 

 beyond are the iilands, fcattered over its face, 

 nor can any thing be more pi&urefque than 

 the bright filver furface of the water breaking 

 through the dark (hades of wood. Around the 

 point on which we Hood, the ground is rough 

 and rocky, wild, and various, forming no bad 

 contrail to the brilliant fcenery in view. Crof- 

 fing fome of this undreffed ground, we came 

 to a point of a hill, above Paddy Macguire's 

 cabbin; here the lake prefents great fheets of 

 water, breaking beyond the w T oody promonto- 

 ries and iflands, in the mod beautiful manner. 

 At the bottom of the declivity, at your feet, 

 is a creek, and beyond it the lands of the do- 

 main, 



