. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . od, arched over with tall trees, and terminating with a fmallruftic building. Though the walk be ftreight lined, yet thebafe rifes and falls fo agreeably, as leaves no reafon to cenfure itsformality. About the middle of this avenue, you arrive at alofty gothic feat, whence you look down a flope, through thewood on each fide. This view is indeed a fine one; the eyefirft travelling dow
. A new display of the beauties of England; : or A description of the most elegant or magnificent public edifices, royal palaces, noblemen's and gentlemen's seats, and other curiosities, natural or artificial .. . od, arched over with tall trees, and terminating with a fmallruftic building. Though the walk be ftreight lined, yet thebafe rifes and falls fo agreeably, as leaves no reafon to cenfure itsformality. About the middle of this avenue, you arrive at alofty gothic feat, whence you look down a flope, through thewood on each fide. This view is indeed a fine one; the eyefirft travelling down over well-variegated ground into the valley,where is a large piece of water. The ground from hencerifes gradually to the top of Clent-hill, and the landfcape isenriched with a view of Hales Owen, the late lord Dudleyshoufe, and a large wood of lord Lytteltons. Hence you pro-ceed to the ruftic building beforementioned, a flight and unex-penfive edifice, formed of rough unhewn ftone, commonly calledhere the Temple of Pan; having a trophy of the Tibia andSyrinx, with this infeription from Virgil over the entrance: Pan primus calamos cera conjungere pluresEdacuit j Pan curat oves> oviumque magijiros, Pan,. THE BEAUTIES OF ENGLAND, 233 >ct Pan, who firfr. taught us to conjoin our reeds, « Pan, who protects the (heep, their mafters feeds. Hence mounting once more to the right through this dark um-brageous walk, you enter at once upon a lightfome high naturalterras, whence the eye is thrown over the fcenes which havebeen viewed before, together with many fine additional ones,^nd all beheld from a declivity that approaches as near to a pre-cipice as is agreeable. In the middle is a feat with this in-fcription: Divini Gloria ! Tp the glory of the country ! This is by far the moft magnificent fcene here. It would beidle to mention the Clee-hills, the Wrelcin, the Welch moun-tains, or Caer Caradoc, at 3 prodigious difiance ; which, tho*they finely terminate the fcene, moul
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