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[sur]face, shining like a crystal mirror reflects the azure sky,
or its dappled clouds, in the finest mixture of nature's
clare-obscure. On the western side, the shore is more variegated
with small inclosures, scattered cots, groves and meadows.
The road continues along the eastern banks of the lake; here
bare, there sweetly fringed with a few tall trees, the small
remains of its ancient woods that till lately clothed the whole.
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STATION II. When you are opposite to the peninsula last described
proceed through a gate on the left hand, and from the rocky
eminence you have a general view of the lake, both ways. To the
south, a sweet bay is formed between the horns of two peninsulas,
and beyond that a fine sheet of water appears, terminated by the
promontories which form the straits, through which the lake has
its outlet. From thence the coast is beautifully diversified by a
number of green eminences crowned with wood, and sequestered
cottages interspersed among them half concealed by yew trees;
and, above them, a wave of rocky, spiral mountains, dressed in
brown vegetation, form the most romantic scenes. Between this and
a wooded eminence, a green hill, cut into inclosures to
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