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incorporated with the rocky steep on which 

 it stands, are all in harmony with the scene. 

 But should the situation afford the choice of 

 a less abrupt site with equal advantages, I 

 should prefer the Manorial House : for, 

 though a Castle is no longer connected with 

 alarm, yet the Manorial Residence is more 

 strictly in unison with that soothing tranquil- 

 lity which pervades the Romantic scene. 



Bardon Tower, which is still standing on 

 a height commanding the windings of the ro- 

 mantic valley of Bolton Abbey, appears as if 

 it had been the former residence of the place; 

 though, in fact, it was not so. Were a house 

 now to be erected, I should wish to place it 

 where the river, having forced its agitated 

 way through a rocky channel of three miles, 

 spreads itself into a little tranquil lake, gently 

 winding round its varying shore, till its 

 stream, gradually entering a more confined 

 channel, glides silently through the woody 

 scenery below. 



On the border of this little lake would I 

 place my house, — where, indeed, the good 

 taste of former times has placed the Abbey, 

 and where a corresponding taste has fixed 

 the Vicarage, which evinces the eye that 



