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I32. LANTHONY.
sor land-marks. An inclination of this road to-
Long Town brought us in front of the Black
Mountains, whose dusky and tremendous sides
appeared doubly srowning, from the humid-Hate
of the air. We had not long contemplated their
ravined lines when we entered an avenue com-
posed by neglected hedges, interspersed with oaks
and slouriming ash trees. There the nature of the
soil and bare- rocks announced our road would
conduct us down the demi-mountain we had
crosYed ; a road that admits but one vehicle at
either extremity; and positively denied the pas-
sage of each by the other within its boundaries;
the drivers of which dare not attempt the usual
resource of backing their horses. Fortunately for
the limbs and property of his Majesty's subjecls,
they rarely pass this terra incognita, and perhaps
no two waggons ever met. Coaches, chaises, and
gigs, never parted the mill at the bottom, I am very
confident. Unfit as the way is for the purpose
intended, it has numberless natural and exqui-
sitely beautiful recommendations; and I must
confess I never sufFered inconvenience and danger
* with so much real pleafure as when we alighted
and walked, leading our horses.
Let the reader enter upon the romantic scene
with us, and imagine a declivity of half a mile
equal to that of the justly-proportioned slair-case
of
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sor land-marks. An inclination of this road to-
Long Town brought us in front of the Black
Mountains, whose dusky and tremendous sides
appeared doubly srowning, from the humid-Hate
of the air. We had not long contemplated their
ravined lines when we entered an avenue com-
posed by neglected hedges, interspersed with oaks
and slouriming ash trees. There the nature of the
soil and bare- rocks announced our road would
conduct us down the demi-mountain we had
crosYed ; a road that admits but one vehicle at
either extremity; and positively denied the pas-
sage of each by the other within its boundaries;
the drivers of which dare not attempt the usual
resource of backing their horses. Fortunately for
the limbs and property of his Majesty's subjecls,
they rarely pass this terra incognita, and perhaps
no two waggons ever met. Coaches, chaises, and
gigs, never parted the mill at the bottom, I am very
confident. Unfit as the way is for the purpose
intended, it has numberless natural and exqui-
sitely beautiful recommendations; and I must
confess I never sufFered inconvenience and danger
* with so much real pleafure as when we alighted
and walked, leading our horses.
Let the reader enter upon the romantic scene
with us, and imagine a declivity of half a mile
equal to that of the justly-proportioned slair-case
of
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