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'But what finishes the scene, with an elegance too delicious to
be imagined, is, this beautiful sheet of water being dotted with
no less than ten islands, distinctly comprehended by the eye, all
of the most bewitching beauty. The large one presents a waving
various line, which rises from the water in the most picturesque
inequalities of surface: high land in one place, low in another,
clumps of trees in this spot, scattered ones in that, adorned by
a farm-house on the water's edge, and backed with a little wood,
vying in simple elegance with Baromean palaces; some of the
smaller islets rising from the lake, like little hills of wood;
some only scattered with trees, and others of grass of the finest
verdure; a more beautiful variety is no where to be seen.
'Strain your imagination to command the idea of so noble an
expanse of water, thus gloriously environed, spotted with
islands, more beautiful than would have issued from the happiest
painter. Picture the mountains rearing their majestic heads with
native sublimity; the vast rocks boldly projecting their terrible
craggy points, and, in the path of beauty, the variegated
inclosures of the most charming verdure, hanging to the eye in
every picturesque form that can grace landscape, with the most
exquisite touches of la belle nature. If you raise your fancy to
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