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at once look down from off this desolate country upon one of the
finest landscapes in the world; a noble range of fertile
inclosures, richly enamelled with the most beautiful verdure: and
coming to the brow of the hill, have a most elegant picturesque
view of a variegated tract of waving inclosures, spreading over
the hills, and hanging to the eye in the most picturesque and
pleasing manner that fancy can conceive: three hills in
particular are overlooked, cut into inclosures in a charming
style, of themselves forming a most elegant landscape, and worthy
the imitation of those who would give the embellishments of art
to the simplicity of nature.'
The station from whence this description is taken, is about the
midway between the third and fourth mile-stone, on the top of a
rock, on the east side of the old road, called Stone-crag, which
cannot be mistaken. The three hills referred to in the
description, are on the near ground of the landscape. There are
many beautiful hills and knolls scattered about the valley; some
cultivated, others covered with wood, or shining in the softest
verdure. But the most remarkable one for picturesque form, is an
oval green hill crowned with the ruins of a castle; it divides
the valley, and overlooks a town hanging on the side of a steep
mountain, this is
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