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few points which afford a more pleafing view than this; it is grand, without being too broad and glaring.

From thefe benches he would enter the foreft part. Here the idea of Nature in her primitive state would be ftrengthened: the roughneffes and deer to the right, and the rocks in all their native wildness to the left. Even Llancot might be shut out from the view by the natural shrubbery of the cliff. The Lover's-Leap, however (a tremendous peep), might remain; but no benches nor other work of art should here be seen. A natural path, deviating near the brink of the precipice, would bring the viewer down to the lower corner of the park, where benches fhould be placed in a happy point, fo as to give a full view of the rocks and native wildneffes, and, at the fame time, hide the farm-houses, fields, and other acquired beauties of Llancot.

Having fatiated himself with this favage scene, he would be led, by a ftill ruftic path, through the labyrinth when the fhrubbery, the lawn, with all its appendages, the graceful Wye and the broad filver Severn, would break upon the eye with every advantage of ornamented nature: the tranfition could not fail to ftrike.

From this foft fcene he would be fhewn to the top of Windcliff, where, in one vaft view, he would unite the fublime and beautiful of Perfefield.

FIN I S.

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