bare top and an irriguous vale at its foot. In front, and spreading
among woods on either side, is a lawn whose surface is beautifully varied
in gentle declivities, hanging to a winding river.
Lowering the hill the scenery is yet more agreeable. The near inclosures
are margined with trees, through whose open branches are seen whole
fields of the most lively verdure. The trees gather into groups, and the
lawn swells into gentle inequalities, while the river winding beneath
renders the whole truly pleasing.
Breakfasted at the inn at Tinnyhinch, and then drove to the park to see
the waterfall. The park itself is fine; you enter it between two vast
masses of mountain, covered with wood, forming a vale scattered with
trees, through which flows a river on a broken rocky channel. You follow
this vale till it is lost in a most uncommon manner; the ridges of
mountain, closing, form one great amphitheatre of wood, from the top of
which, at the height of many hundred feet, bursts the water from a rock,
and tumbling down the side of a very large one, forms a scene singularly
beautiful. At the bottom is a spot of velvet turf, from which rises a
clump of oaks, and through their stems, branches and leaves, the falling
water is seen as a background, with an effect more picturesque than can
be well imagined. These few trees, and this little lawn, give the
finishing to the scene. The water falls behind some large fragments of
rock, and turns to the left, down a stony channel, under the shade of a
wood.
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