Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, And Scenery of Scotland: With Incidental Remarks On ... 1
Sketches of the Present Manners, Customs, And Scenery of Scotland: With Incidental Remarks On ... 1
Spence, Elizabeth Isabella, 1768-1832
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The want of gardens before the cottages de- prives them of that social aspect which marks the habitations of the industrious. Thecottages,bysuchimprovement, might be made a little arcadia, for they possess every advantage, and much superiority over England 1 * With respect to the ro- mantic beauty of their situation. I was much pleased with my ramble t&rough the lovely woods of BotHwielh The approach is by the modern mansion, (inhabited by Lord Douglas) and gives no idea of any vestige of antiq...uitgr re- maining, until, by an abrupt taming, the noble ruin, half buried in the deep .woods which irt melancholy gloom em- bosom it, appears abtfve them. I have seerf mtfre magnificent rains* but never any, in poiftt-oF situation, so picturesque; thisiitegrihif jtfte, Whitshhaif-demoifahed - towers* seated a& thd verge of a perpen- dicular reek, covered whh luxuriant ' treefr, bverfktfiga the 4iver* and tfce frag- meat* 'fe^ffl&tttyite Friary,* on the oppov A GALEBOXIAN EXCURSION. 1^5' site bank* form altogether- a, soefie un- equalled in romantic graven*.
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