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that the path which climbs up the hill to the right, partly oppofite the last waterfall, paffes by the deep hanging fides of a ranging valley-a valley fo happily filled with the finest trees and underwood, fo formed by nature for the hand of tafte to difplay itself, that I am amazed (the genius of the place being fo obvious) that it never caught the eye of the defigner, and was put in execution.

I think I may prefume to fay, that this retired and umbrageous dell, by collecting the water, which now dribbles along its bottom, teaching it to drop in broken and abrupt falls, or in fome places fmooth, as fancy guides, and leading a path carelessly along, fometimes upon its brow, at others dipping into the deepest hollow, where proper places may demand a grotefque feat, or any other de coration-that not even the celebrated environs of the grotto of Hagley, or the

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fafcinating Virgil's Grove of the Leafowes, would eclipfe the beauties which might be made to appear in this delightful vale. It would be a continued fcene of the most enchanting nature, and if condufted fimilar to the taste fhewn about the cafcades, even from thence, fhutting out every diftant object, and confining it. to its own charms, which would every where fhew themselves, be diftinguished as one of the moft copious and pleafing receffes that ever graced a park.

The path which leads near the farmhouse, ftrikes up the hill to the out-fide of the copie, where a feat, very judiciously placed, commands a free and extenfive profpect. The dark brown defart appears fweeping along the bottom, on the right of the rich plantation of firs, filling the valley with its dark rich plumes, while Kinver church, the unwieldly ridge of hills, and the grotesque rock under

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neath, with an endless range of words, mountains, commons, churches, and houfes, delightfully diverfify the whole, and give it the most engaging confequence.

The afcent now becomes fteep and turns again into the wood, where foon after appears

The CHAPEL.

This building is dedicated to the late Mr. Shenfone, merely as I imagine from the great fimilitude the views from this place have to feveral of those of the Leafowes. The gloom, the deep furrounding falls, clofely embraced by a wilderness of copfe and large forest trees, thinly fcattered in the front, is truly wild. Here the windows are very judiciously ornamented with painted glass; throwing an air of folemnity over it, and perfectly answering to the folitary gloom

which hovers about it: the principal objects from hence are the Boat-house and the water ftraggling up the deep vale, glistening between the trunks of the lofty trees on the steep brow of the hill, and over the tops of others, with a beautiful range of country beyond in perspective. This fcene is fo delicious, fo connected, and fo fweetly blended, that it is impof. fible for any one to look and not to admire it.

Hence through the bofom of the wood, the close fhady path leads to a feat under the fpreading branches of a noble oak, looking upon the bold fwell of an opening lawn, where the rotunda, every way furrounded by the dark umbrageous foreft, ftands uncommonly graceful. The foreft here is fo interwoven with its under-wood of hazles and other bushes, fo connected and fo thick, that scare a funbeam ever cheers the folitary way.

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The woods on this fide at length, af ter rifing another hill, fteep and amazingly rich in trees, open to a lovely and chearful down, extending itself in the gayeft diversity. This is called the Sheepwalk, and the numerous groupes of those animals feeding and browzing on the flowry turf, give a pleafing reflection to every one who visits these fylvan scenes.

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charming down, which adds a luftre to the delightful walks of Envil, affords innumerable objects equally entertaining: the eye is never tired in roving from one point to another; every one varies, and every one reflects a beauty on the other.

In the midst of this large rich tract of ground, dedicated to the ufes of life as well as pleasure, is a building called

The SHEPHERD's LODGE,

Built in the Gothic tafte, and stands on an elevated fpot, catching, at one

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