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ever left this place. Yet it has in not very many years pafled
through many hands. One of its various pofleflbrs was the
generous Valentine Morris, governor of St. Vincent, in the
Weft Indies, who firft comprehended the beauty of the fpot,
and opened it up, by walks and drives, to the feet and the eye
VIEW FROM CHAPEL HILL.
of the lover of nature. Poor Morris !—imprudent as benevolent,
and treated with the grofleft difhonefty by a bafe government,
he was as unfortunate as he was philanthropic ; yet you will
find his memory retained lovingly in Chepftow.
“And here, too, it is pleafant to think that that good and
gifted young woman, Elizabeth Smith, whom the laft genera-
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ever left this place. Yet it has in not very many years pafled
through many hands. One of its various pofleflbrs was the
generous Valentine Morris, governor of St. Vincent, in the
Weft Indies, who firft comprehended the beauty of the fpot,
and opened it up, by walks and drives, to the feet and the eye
VIEW FROM CHAPEL HILL.
of the lover of nature. Poor Morris !—imprudent as benevolent,
and treated with the grofleft difhonefty by a bafe government,
he was as unfortunate as he was philanthropic ; yet you will
find his memory retained lovingly in Chepftow.
“And here, too, it is pleafant to think that that good and
gifted young woman, Elizabeth Smith, whom the laft genera-