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the agreeable surprise that attends the first sight of scenes
that surpass all description, and of objects which will always
affect the spectator in the highest degree.
Such as wish to unbend the mind from anxious cares or fatiguing
studies, will meet with agreeable relaxation in making the tour
of the lakes. Something new will open itself at the turn of every
mountain, and a succession of ideas will be supported by a
perpetual change of objects, and a display of scenes behind
scenes in endless perspective. The contemplative traveller will
be charmed with the sight of the sweet retreats that he will
observe in these enchanting regions of calm repose; and the
fanciful may figuratively review the hurry and bustle of busy
life, in all its gradations, in the variety of unshaded rills
that hang on the mountains' sides, the hasty brooks that warble
through the dell, or the mighty torrents precipitating themselves
at once with thundering noise from tremendous rocky heights; all
pursuing one general end, their increase in the vale, and their
union in the ocean.
Such as spend their lives in cities, and their time in crowds,
will here meet with objects that will enlarge the mind, by
contemplation, and raise it from nature to nature's first
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