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main, fcattered with noble woods, that rife 

 immediately from the water's edge ; the houfe, 

 almoft obfeured among the trees, feems a fit 

 retreat from every care and anxiety of the 

 world : a little beyond it the lawn, which is in 

 front, fhews its lively green among the deeper 

 fhades, and over the neck of land, which joins 

 it to the promontory of wood, called Rojs a 

 goal, the- lake feems to form a beautiful wood- 

 lock'd bafon, frretching its filver furface behind 

 the Hems of the {ingle trees; beyond the whole, 

 the mountainy rocks of Turaw, give a magni- 

 ficent finifhing. Near you, on every iide, is 

 w 7 ild toffed-about ground, which adds very 

 much to the variety of the fcene. From hence 

 we pafTed to the hill in the mountain park, 

 from whence the fcenery is different; here you 

 fee a {hort promontory of wood, which projects 

 into a bay, formed by two others, confiderably 

 more extenfive, that is Rojs a gold and Rofsmoor 

 eafi. The lake {ketch ing away in vait reaches, 

 and between numerous iflands, almoft as far as 

 the eye can command. In the great creek, to 

 the right, which flows up under the mountain 

 of Turaw, are two beautiful iflands, which, 

 with the promontories, fcattered with trees, 

 give it the moft agreeable variety. 



In another ride, Sir James gave me a view 

 of that part of his domain which forms the pro- 

 montory of Rofs moor; coaffed it, and croffed 

 the hills : nothing can exhibit fcenes of greater 

 variety or more beauty. The iflands on every 

 fide are of a different character ; fome are 



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