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rich variegated colouring ; with which they blend fome 

 ever-greens, fome fruit-trees, and the few fhrubs and 

 flowers which bloffbm late in the year ; placing amongft 

 them decayed trees, pollards, and dead flumps, of pic- 

 turefque forms, overfpread with mofs and ivy. 



The buildings with which thefe fcenes are decorated, 

 are generally fuch as indicate decay, being intended as 

 mementos to the paffenger. Some are hermitages and 

 alms-houfes, where the faithful old fervants of the family 

 fpend the remains of life in peace, amidft the tombs of 

 their predeceffors, who lie buried around them : others 

 are ruins of caftles, palaces, temples, and deferted re- 

 ligious houfes ; or half buried triumphal arches and mau- 

 foleums, with mutilated infcriptions, that once comme- 

 morated the heroes of antient times ; or they are fepulchres 

 of their anceftors, catacombs and cemeteries for their fa- 

 vourite domeftic animals ; or whatever elfe may ferve to 

 indicate the debility, the difappointments, and the dif- 

 folution of humanity; which, by co-operating with the 

 dreary afpect of autumnal nature, and the inclement tem- 

 perature 



