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and neglect. The winter torrents in some 

 places wash down the mould from the 

 upper grounds, and form projections of 

 various shapes, which, from the fatness of 

 the soil, are generally enriched with the 

 most luxuriant vegetation ; in other parts 

 they tear the banks into deep hollows, dis- 

 covering the different strata of earth, and 

 the shaggy roots of trees : these hollows 

 are frequently overgrown with wild roses, 

 with honeysuckles, periwincles, and other 

 trailing plants, which with their flowers 

 and pendent branches have quite a different 

 effect when hanging loosely over one of 

 these recesses, opposed to its deep shade, 

 and mixed with the fantastic roots of trees 

 and the varied tints of the soil, from 

 that which they produce when they are 

 trimmed into bushes, or crawl along a 

 shrubber}', where the ground has been 

 worked into one uniform slope. In the 

 summer time these little caverns afford a 

 cool retreat for the sheep; and it is difficult 

 to imagine a more beautiful fore-ground 

 than is formed by the different groups of 



