A brief account of the picturesque scenery on the banks of the Wye between Ross and Chepstow . he will pass and walk to the top of theWyndclifi*. This is the last grand scene of thePiercefield sublime drama ; it is not only mag-nificent, but it is so novel, that it excites an in-voluntary start of astonishment. Fosbroke says*what a cathedral is among churches, Wynd-clifi is among prospects. There is (says Eeed)an eminence, called Wyndclifi*, which I hadfrequently heard of and was very anxious tovisit. I found my way thither through a planta-tion of firs that crowns its summit, at the end ofwhi
A brief account of the picturesque scenery on the banks of the Wye between Ross and Chepstow . he will pass and walk to the top of theWyndclifi*. This is the last grand scene of thePiercefield sublime drama ; it is not only mag-nificent, but it is so novel, that it excites an in-voluntary start of astonishment. Fosbroke says*what a cathedral is among churches, Wynd-clifi is among prospects. There is (says Eeed)an eminence, called Wyndclifi*, which I hadfrequently heard of and was very anxious tovisit. I found my way thither through a planta-tion of firs that crowns its summit, at the end ofwhich a landscape of such transcendent beautyopened before me, as cast a sort of shade onevery former scene within my observation. Ifelt as if I had been conducted to the spot, bythe hand of some invisible agent, to contemplatethe regions of enchantment or the gardens ofElysium. It embraces a thousand picturesqueobjects, yet as a whole, it is not picturesque, butpossesses something of a superior kind thatcannot easily be described. The man of tastewould gaze upon it with rapture and astonish-.
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