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have defcribed, which from the boat take a 

 frefh variety, and in all pleafing. 



Eagle ifland firft faiutes us, a woody knole. 

 Others pafs in review ; among the reft Herring 

 ifland, noted for the wreck of a herring-boat, 

 and the drowning of afidlerj but the boat- 

 men love herrings better than mufic, and gave 

 their name to the ille, rather than that of the 

 ion of Apollo. Innifnakill is all wood. Rab- 

 bit iiland is 40 acres of pafture, which rifes 

 bold from the water. Innifmac Saint alfo 40 

 acres of grafs. Then comes a clufter of woody 

 iflands, which rife in perfect hills from the wa- 

 ters edge, the wood dipping in the lake, and 

 they are fo numerous that the lake is cut by 

 them into winding ftraits, more beautiful than 

 can be thought. The reader may imagine how 

 exquifite the view muft be, of numerous hills 

 of dark and complete wood, which rife boldly 

 from fo noble a meet of water : they form a 

 moft fingular fcene. Wherever- the more is 

 feen, it is riling lands ; in fome places woods, 

 in others cultivated hills. Pailing thefe fylvan 

 glories, we come next to the Gully iiland, all 

 of wood, and is 100 acres: much of it is bold 

 riling land, and the oak dips in the water. 

 What a fpot to build on, and form a retreat 

 from the bufinefs and anxiety of the world ! 

 Nature here is blooming. It is in the midft of 

 a region where one would think me has almoft 

 exhaufted herft if in producing fcenes of rural 

 elegance. It belongs to Lord Ely ;. I envy him 

 the poifeiricn. The only thing it yields its 



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