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knots or tufts of wood, others fhrubby. Here 

 are fingle rocks, and there fine hills of lawn, 

 which rife boldly from the water ; the promon- 

 tories form equal diftinclions; fome are of thick 

 woods, which yield the darkeft fhade, others 

 open groves, but every where the coaft is high, 

 and yields pleafing landfcapes. From the eaft 

 point of Rofs moor, the fcenery is truly delici- 

 ous. The point of view is a high promontory 

 of wood, lawn, &c. which projects fo far into 

 the lake as to give a double view of it of great 

 extent. You look down a declivity on the 

 lake which flows at your feet, and full in front 

 is the wood of Rofs agouU at the extreme point 

 of which is the temple: this wood is perfectly 

 a deep fhade, and has an admirable effect. At 

 the other end it joins another woody promon- 

 tory, in which the lawn opens beautifully a^- 

 mong the fcattered trees, and juft admits a par- 

 tial view of the houfe half obicured-, carrying 

 your eye a little more to the left, you fee three 

 other necks of wood, which ftretch into the 

 lake, generally giving a deep fhade, but here 

 and there admitting the water behind the ftems 

 and through the branches of the trees -, all this 

 bounded by cultivated hills, and thofe backed 

 by diftant mountains. Here are no objects 

 which you do not command diftinctly: none 

 that do not add to the beauty of the fcene, and 

 the whole forming a landfcape rich in the af- 

 femblage of a variety of beauties. The other 

 reach of the lake varying under Rofs moor is 

 a different fcene, bounded by the mountains 



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