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tame cultivated country (and not those 

 only) mistake barrenness, desolation, and 

 deformity, for grandeur and picturesque- 

 ness.* 



Deformity in ground, is indeed less ob- 

 vious than in other objects : deformity 

 seems to be something that did not originally 

 belong to the object in which it exists ; 

 something strikingly and unnaturally dis- 

 agreeable, and not softened by those cir- 



* It might be supposed, on the other hand, that the 

 being continually among picturesque scenes, would of itself, 

 and without any assistance from pictures, lead to a distin- 

 guishing taste for them. Unfortunately it often leads to a 

 perfect indifference for that style, and to a preference for 

 something directly Opposite. 



I once walked over a very romantic place, in Wales, 

 with the proprietor, and strongly expressed how much I 

 was struck with it, and among the rest, with several na- 

 tural cascades. He was quite uneasy at the pleasure I felt, 

 and seemed afraid I should waste my admiration. " Don't 

 stop at these things," said he, (< I will shew you by and by 

 one worth seeing." At last we came to a part where the 

 brook was conducted down three long steps of bewn stone : 

 " There," said he, with great triumph, u that was made by 

 Edwards, who built Pont y pridd, and it is reckoned as neat 

 a piece of mason-work as any in the country." 



