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OR, OBSERVATIONS ON PLACING OBJECTS ON THE EMINENCES, AND
PLANTING TREES IN THE VALLIES SEEN IN THIS TOUR.
BEING THE NOTE INTENDED FOR P.43.
FURNESS FELLS, and the adjacent parts here alluded to, are so
peculiarly distinguished with picturesque beauty, that they
deserve a more minute description. This country consists of a
succession of mountains and vallies formed and intermixed in all
the possible variety of rural nature. Much of the vallies, and
the bases of most of the hills, are covered with young wood,
which, at certain periods, is cut down and charred for the use of
the neighbouring furnaces. On this account, the copses, which
consist of various kinds of trees, constantly, in the summer,
exhibited every pleasing colour of youthful vegetation. The main
shoots also spring up so straight, and the collateral ones at
such small angles with them, that they give an uncommon idea of
vegetating vigour; and when they are seen rooted in the different
clefts of rocks, fancy will conceive them not unlike the stream
of some fluid bursting forcibly from its prison. Amongst these
copses are found several neat villages, houses, and spaces of
cultivated land, which, with a number of brooks and rivers
tumbling and tinkling among them, constitute a scene of sylvan
beauty exceedingly lively and singular. But what still enhances
the whole, is the goodness of the highways, of which, in fine
weather, it is not extravagant to say, in general, that they
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