. 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 fee a moll beautiful natural cafcade, gufhing, toappearance, out of a cavern in the rock, fweetly overhung withthick wood, and falling from one bit of rock to another, tillit lofes itfeif among the adjoining woods. From hence youmove to a bench, where you are again moft exquifitely enter-tained by the fame cafcade, viewed in a different direction, withthe addition of its tricking
. 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 fee a moll beautiful natural cafcade, gufhing, toappearance, out of a cavern in the rock, fweetly overhung withthick wood, and falling from one bit of rock to another, tillit lofes itfeif among the adjoining woods. From hence youmove to a bench, where you are again moft exquifitely enter-tained by the fame cafcade, viewed in a different direction, withthe addition of its tricking at your feet over the grafs, beau-tifully fcattered with trees : through them, in front, a fine openrjng over a moft noble hollow of hanging woods. To the right,you look down through another opening among the trees, fonatural as to have a moft elegant efFedt, and catch the riverrunning rapidly over the rocks j moft exquifitely pi£turefque:nothing can exceed the tafte, variety, and beauty, of this be-witching landfcape. Following the winding courfe of the walk,you come next to Fifhers Hall, a fmall o&agon room, built of3 pejriHed fubftance, upon a beautiful little fwelling hill, in the middle - ■ -. THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND. 163 middle of a fine romantic hollow, furrounded by a vaft amphi-theatre of hanging woods.—This is the outline of the picture,which is in itfelf noble ; but the filling; up of the canvas adds, acolouring more than equa) to the pencil of a Claude. Thelittle hill on which this building is placed, is covered with athicket of trees, fo that you view every object by varying yourpofition either in full, or in obfcura, which makes all river gives a noble bend at your feet, imbanked by finehanging woods, the white building, already mentioned, peepingfrom among them in one fpot, and a fine fear of rock in ano-ther. Under the feat, the ftream is rapid, raging over rocks,and winding away under walls of them, covered with hills ofwood j a noble rang
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