1798. ] 
lying in fuch a ftriking manner imme- 
diately beneath’the fight. Mr. Gilpin, 
in his late Weftern Your, has given a 
iketch of the profpects from Norbury ; 
and from his remarks may be gathered 
how they appear to an eye in fearch of 
the true piéturefque. I believe, however, 
that a more untaught {pectator, gratified 
with the charms of nature, without re- 
ferring them to a remoter te{t, would re- 
ceive from them a purersdelight. Mr. 
Locke’s celebrated pated room is, in tat, 
the fubjeét of much more of Mr. Gilpin’s 
defeription than the park itfelf, ‘This 
reom, prefeuting a fine land{cape on each 
of its fides, together with the decorations 
of figures, foliage, flowers, &c. is, I 
doubt not, an extraordinary work of art ; 
but, placed as it is, the effect upon my 
feelings was that of a proof of the infinite 
fuperiority of real to pictured {cenery ; 
and the burft of {plendour poured in at 
the windows almoit entirely extinguifhed 
to my cye the magic lights of Barrett’s 
pencil. I could not help withing, that 
the colt beftowed upon this piece of paint- 
ing, had rather been devoted to fome 
archite&tural ornaments out of doors; 
fince the ftyle of cultured beauty prevalent 
in Norbury-park would, in my opinion, 
admit with advantage a judicious inter- 
mixture of fuch decoration, though it 
cannot be faid abfolutely to require it. 
The only attempt at an edifice is a thatch- 
ed platter building with green window- 
fhutters, the appearance of which, in one 
of the moft commanding fites of the park, 
Is, in my judgment, wholly incongruous, 
And there is nothing in which the modern 
Englith tafte feems to me fo faulty, as in 
the cultom of placing mean and ruftic 
buildings in the mid{t of {cenes certainly 
not intended to convey the idea of the 
abfence of art and expence. This Jove 
of fjimplicity has, in various other particu- 
lars injured our nationa) tafte ; and has 
produced incongruities in ow ftyle of 
poetry and oratory, as well as in our ex- 
ternal decorations. 
I have already mentioned Boxhill as 
the other great feature of the vale I am 
defcribing. It is indeed the mott ftrile- 
ing object of this part of the country, 
and beft known as a popular curiofity. 
It comprehends a contiderable fpace, be- 
ing compofed of three or four fmooth 
green ridges, feparated from each other 
by narrow dells, and uniting at the fum- 
mit into one lofty wooded top. On the 
fide facing the vale of Leatherhead, 
its defcent is not much fhort of perpendi- 
eular, torming a kind of chalky crag, 
maked and crumbling where not boynd 
Boxhill, Leatherhead, Sc. 
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by the box-trees and other fhrubs, which 
in moft parts give it a rich and thick co-. 
vering. Its foot is bathed in the Mole, 
abruptlyterminating its declivity, andgiv- 
ing it a fringe of aquatic trees and ver- 
dant meadows. Its peculiarity arifes 
from its refemblance to the bold broken 
crages of mountainous countries ; which, 
however, it only holds on this fide ; tor 
where it bends round to join the Ryegate 
ridge of chaik hills, it puts on the fame 
rotundity of form with the reft. Its 
creft affords a walk uncommonly frik- 
ing; winding through the plantations of 
box, and at the openings affording bird’s 
eye views of all the charms, as well of 
the Leatherhead Vale, as of that much 
longer one.in which the former termi- 
nates. It is difficult to determine whe- 
ther this romantic hill produces a greater 
effect as an object from the fubjacent 
vale, or as a ftation for a profpeét. The 
point of view whence the hill itfelf is the 
mott ftriking fpe€tacle, is from the ver 
elegant cottage and grounds of Mr, Bar- 
clay, feated directly beneath it, The 
vaft perpendicular wall of verdure, form- 
ing a fide-fkreen to thofe grounds, has an 
effect of real fublimity as well as uncom- 
mon beauty ; and a fimilar happy cir- 
cumftance is perhaps {carcely to be met 
with in any other ornamental feene. The 
waters of the Mole are commonly faid to 
fink into the ground under Boxhill. No 
interruption of the ftream, however, is to 
be obferved at the foot of the hill itfelf; 
though, after it has pafled Burford- 
bridge, in its courfe through Norbury- 
park, there are feveral fuch interruptions, 
RA, 
( Io be continued. ) 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, i 
EING lately introduced by a friend 
to the company of Mr. J. D, CHIs- 
HOLM, who had lived upwards of fix- 
teen years amongft different tribes of the 
Indians of North America, I was induced 
to put my ufual queries, refpecting the 
exiftence of the Wel/h Indians, to him; 
and the following particulars are the re- 
fult of my enquiry. 
Mr. Cu1sH0LM. has heard fome ac- 
counts of a people under the appellation 
of Weifh Indians, at various times and 
places, in the United States. 
He knows it to be a fact, generally 
known alfo in the America States, but 
better known amongft the Indians, that 
theré exifts a people, commonly denomi- 
nated tle White Indians, whote aie 
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