REPORT OF THE MEETINGS FOR 1900 2lS 



Pkoceeding on, a path to the right leads to a rude Cave 

 amid the Cliffs of the Rocks, which is to be adorned with the 

 Statue of a Hermit, not ill-adapted to the retired situation 

 of this fine romantic solitude. 



The former path being resumed, winds for a quarter of 

 a mile round the Edge of a most astonishing Precipice, which 

 from a vast height, presents a noble wild prospect of wide 

 extent, and at an amazing depth below the Path from which 

 it is seen. The first object the eye looks down upon at the 

 foot of the mountain, is the Eiver Alne, winding in the most 

 beautiful and whimsical irregularities. This is to be received 

 into a large Lake on the right, which will cover 200 acres 

 of ground. On a little Hill on its margin, are seen, as in 

 a picture held far below the eye, the fine Remains of Hulne 

 Abbey : more to the left are little Swellings, the hollows of 

 which are friuged with a chain of small rough Thickets. 

 Beyond these rises a vast extent of wild naked Plains, with 

 here and there a single Farm or Plantation scattered like 

 solitary islands in a wide unbounded ocean. Over these the 

 eye gradually rises to where the vast Mountains of Chiviot 

 erect their huge conic heads : between the openings of which, 

 the sight gains a glimpse of the still more distant blue Hills 

 of TivioTDALE in Scotland. The top of Chiviot is distant 

 more than twenty miles : the Hills in Tiviotdale near forty 

 or fifty. 



TuBNiNG off from the Edge of this high natural Terrace, 

 we cross a little level Plain, and then gain the highest point 

 of this British Carmel. Elevated as its lofty summit is, it 

 is all clothed with young Plantations of evergreen and forest 

 Trees, with spacious Avenues left for the passage of Wheel- 

 Carriages, which easily ascend to its topmost point. Here 

 in a little Plain, surrounded by a Circus of young Trees, is 

 to be erected a noble Tower fifty feet high : which will 

 command an astonishing extent and variety of prospect. 

 Here we see, as in one general map, what we have hitherto 

 admired in detached parts. 



To the West we have still a more extensive view of that 

 amazing wild Prospect towards Chiviot, which is but faintly 

 described above. Those rude Mountains now appear finely 

 contrasted with a great Variety of Hills and Slopes to the 



