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sun, beaming on the blue and yellow mountains' sides, produces
effects of light and shade the most charming that ever a son of
Apelles imagined. In approaching the head of Newland-hawse, on
the left, a mountain of purple-coloured rock presents a thousand
gaping chasms, excavated by torrents that fall into a bason,
formed in the bosom of the mountain, and from thence
precipitating themselves over a wall of rock, become a brook
below. In front is a vast rocky mountain, the barrier of the
dell, that opposes itself to all further access. Among the
variety of water-falls that distinguish this awful boundary of
rock, one catches the eye at a distance that exceeds the boasted
Lowdore, in height of rock and unity of fall, whilst the beholder
is free of all anxiety of mind in the approach. Not one pebble or
grain of sand offends; but all is nature, in her sweetest trim of
verdant turf, spread out to please her votaries.
Whoever would enjoy, with ease and safety Alpine views, and
pastoral scenes in the sublime style, may have them in this
morning ride.
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