Chambers, William: A Dissertation On Oriental Gardening (London: Griffin [u.a.], 1773)

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Bats, owls, vultures, and every bird of prey ssutter in
the groves; wolves, tigers and jackalls howl in the
forests; half-famiflied animals wander upon the plains;
gibbets, erodes, wheels, and the whole apparatus of
torture, are seen from the roads; and in the mo st dismal
recedes of the woods, where the ways are rugged and
overgrown with poisonous weeds, and where every objeft
bears the marks of depopulation, are temples dedicated
to the king of vengeance, deep caverns in the rocks, and
deseents to gloomy subterraneous habitations, overgrown
with brushwood and brambles; near which are inseribed,
on pillars of done, pathetic descriptions of tragical
events, and many horrid acts of cruelty, perpetrated
there by outlaws and robbers of former times: and to
add both to the horror and sublimity of these seenes,
they sometimes conceal in cavities, on the summits of
the highest mountains, founderies, lime-kilns, and glass-
works; which send forth large volumes of ssame, and
continued clouds os thick smoke, that give to these
mountains the appearance of volcanoes.
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