. 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 .. . you wind down the hill into a wood, where, in adeepre-cefs, by a , is a retired bench ; from this you wind tothe left up hill, and find an urn inferibed to Mr. Pope. Henceyou come to a gentle fall of water, and to a lawn incircled withwood, from which is a fteep afcent to a ruined tower. Fromthe top of this is an immenfely extended view of the country :Dudley, W
. 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 .. . you wind down the hill into a wood, where, in adeepre-cefs, by a , is a retired bench ; from this you wind tothe left up hill, and find an urn inferibed to Mr. Pope. Henceyou come to a gentle fall of water, and to a lawn incircled withwood, from which is a fteep afcent to a ruined tower. Fromthe top of this is an immenfely extended view of the country :Dudley, Worcefter, the Clee Hills, the Wrekin at forty, andRadnor-tump at eighty miles diftance. From hence you defcendto a triangular water, where there is a good view of the now wind through the hanging wood, to the feat of Con-templation j which is a fine clofe fcene, well contrafted withthat vaft expanfe of profpect which the Tower afforded : andadmirably fitted to relieve the eye, tired with the very great anddiftant objects which it has been viewing. Hence you foon ar-rive at the Root-Houfe or Hermitage, in which are the followinglines from the II Penferofo of Milton : « And v^ I I XT M $* •f | ,.
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