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irregular; here rising into hills covered with the noblest woods,
presenting a gloomy brownness of shade, almost from the clouds to
the reflection of the trees in the limpid water of the lake they
so beautifully skirt; there waving in glorious slopes of
cultivated inclosures, adorned in the sweetest manner with every
object that can give variety to art, or elegance to nature;
trees, woods, villages, houses, farms, scattered with picturesque
confusion, and waving to the eye in the most romantic landscapes
that nature can exhibit.
'This valley, so beautifully inclosed, is floated by the lake,
which spreads forth to right and left, in one vast, but irregular
expanse of transparent water; a more noble object can hardly be
imagined. Its immediate shore is traced in every variety of line
that fancy can imagine; sometimes contracting the lake into the
appearance of a noble winding river; at others retiring from it
and opening into large bays, as if for navies to anchor in:
promontories spread with woods, or scattered with trees and
inclosures, projecting into the water in the most picturesque
style imaginable; rocky points breaking the shore, and rearing
their bold heads above the water; in a word, a variety that
amazes the beholder.
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