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with rivers, lakes, cafcades, fountains, and water-works 

 «©f all forts : being combined and difpofed in all the 

 picturefque forms that art or nature can fuggeft. Build- 

 ings, fculptures, and paintings are added, to give fplendor 

 and variety to thefe compofitions ; and the rareft pro- 

 ductions of the animal creation are collected, to enliven 

 them : nothing is forgot that can either exhilerate the 

 mind, gratify the fenfes, or give a fpur to the imagination. 



Their fcenes of terror are compofed of gloomy woods, 

 deep vallies inacceflible to the fun, impending barren 

 rocks, dark caverns, and impetuous cataracts rufhing 

 down the mountains from all parts. The trees are ill 

 formed, forced out of their natural directions, and feem- 

 ingly torn to pieces by the violence of tempefts : fome 

 are thrown down, and intercept the courfe of the tor- 

 rents; others look as if blafled and mattered by the power 

 of lightening : the buildings are in ruins ; or half con- 

 fumed by fire, or fwept away by the fury of the waters : 

 nothing remaining entire but a few miferable huts dif- 

 perfed in the mountains, which ferve at once to indicate 



the 



