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vol.1 p.183
Of all the lakes in these romantic regions, the lake we are
now examining, seems to be most generally admired. It was
once admirably characterized by an ingenious person,
* who, on his first seeing it, cried out, Here is
beauty indeed - Beauty lying in the lap of Horrour! We
do not often find a happier illustration. Nothing conveys an
idea of beauty more strongly, than the lake; nor of
horrour, than the mountains; and the former lying
in the lap of the latter, expresses in a strong manner
the mode of their combination. The late Dr. Brown, who was a
man of taste, and had seen every part of this country,
singled out the scenery of this lake for it's peculiar
beauty †. And unquestionably it is, in many places,
both beautiful, and romantic; particularly along it's
eastern, and southern shores: but to give it
pre-eminence may be paying it perhaps as much too
high a compliment; as it would be too
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