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BRITISH BIRDS. 337 
Scenes like thefe, harmonized by the clack of 
the mill and its murmuring water-fall, afford plea- 
fures little known to thofe who have always been 
engaged in mere worldly purfuits : but fuch pic- 
turefque beauties pafs not unnoticed by the young 
naturalift; their charms invite his firft attentions, 
and probably bias his inclinations to purfue ftudies 
which enlarge and exalt his mind, and can only 
end with his life. 
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