C 4SC JDE in GLEN-HJJOICH, 
M J R - FOREST. 
; s a long, winding, wooded valley, of Mar-Forejl. Its rivulet falls 
'bale lnt ° ^ ie ^ ee> near t0 Cra £S an > the rock whofe tower marks the opening into 
fnt/ m ° re> w here Mar-Lodge , the Earl of Fife’s hunting feat, is fituated. The 
i n ^ nce ^ nto the glen is rocky ; the channel of the rivulet bounded by precipices ; 
f 0r P^ces thefe nearly approach each other j and fine pidlurefque cafcades are 
e by the torrents rufhing over the rocks between. 
rn ei] t *? ne °b tbe molt romantic falls. Lord Fife has lately added a high embellilh- 
th e f Growing a wooden bridge over it. Under the protection and fhade of 
K - aCent: roc kj a kind of feat or hermitage is formed, from whence the cliffs, 
a S e> an d ball of the foaming rivulet, have a very pidturefque and pleafing 
at itie"' circumftances determined the choice of the profpeCt prefented in the 
ag e plate. Such fituations, romantic by nature, it has been, in every polifhed 
tfiv ec j C ob j eft °b ta fte to improve. Even artificial folitudes and grottos are con- 
kfious^ 0 tbe enn °bling ideas of the more fecluded wilds of creation. The 
fojj t S Pbdofopher, and gay enthufiaft, equally delight in thefe retirements. In the 
atiq bcene, retired from the intrufion of the world, fancy finds feemingly fairer 
Can Itl0re °P en fields wherein to play j ranging over nature, unconfined and free, 
0f th m ° re delight itfelf with various {peculation in undifturbed quiet the treafures 
° u §ht more liberally unfold. 
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and th° natura by fair, frequents the folitary fcene ; comes forth from the cave 
' v * t h hg C ^ ts °f the rock, like the nymph of the myftic cell, and charms the world 
^°liag e er ,^' v ^ ne fnchantments. To mark how the wild flowers fpring, what varied 
Vatej ^ IVes onufual grace, what livelier tints glow among the offspring of unculti- 
la byr -- re : to admire the fpangled infeCts that build among the land, or trace the 
Co n Ce . i S °f tbe {lender fhells, whofe animals choofe the moffes of the rock for their 
bre e2c a bode : or in more vacant mood, to liflen to the foft whiipers of the 
^itucP b Sbs among the boughs of the aged trees, whofe fhade embrowns the 
ti'e clifr a “^ be foothed with the wild murmurs of the torrent, which echo among 
s ^ its fall —■are the bleft recreations of thefe fweet folitudes, where mankind 
N feem 
