. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . z Sri* SI i. THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 109 To the left you command a fine bend of it, which leads to avillage with a white church rifing from the midff. of it: and atfome diftance beyond, it again is caught among the inciofures,beautifully fringed with trees and hedge-rows. You alfo lookback on the rocky fteep of wood, rifing piiturefquely from thewaters edge. There are few views fine
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . z Sri* SI i. THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 109 To the left you command a fine bend of it, which leads to avillage with a white church rifing from the midff. of it: and atfome diftance beyond, it again is caught among the inciofures,beautifully fringed with trees and hedge-rows. You alfo lookback on the rocky fteep of wood, rifing piiturefquely from thewaters edge. There are few views finer than this; from hence,the plantations unite with others that condudt you again to thehoufe. Haddon Hall in the High Peak, near Bakewell, was theancient feat of the Vernons, one of whom, Sir George Vernon,who lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was fo noted forhis hofpitality, that he was called the King of the Peak. hwent from him, by the marriage of his daughter, to the fon ofthe firft Earl of Rutland j and is now the property of the pre-sent Duke of Rutland. Radburn, the feat of Colonel Pol?, is very beautifully fitu-ated on one of the higheft grounds in the fouth part of Derbyshire;commanding very extenfive vie
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