Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, On Several Parts of ... 2
Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1772, On Several Parts of ... 2
William Gilpin
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The interflices between the fragments, which had been filled with fluid mofs, were now baked by the heat of the fun, and crufled over like the great furface of the mofs itfelf. Here and there, along this furface, the brokea rafters of a houfe, or the top of a blafled tree were feen ; and made an odd appearance, rifing as it were, out of the ground, in which they were half funk. But through the whole wafle, there was not the lead fign left of any culture ; tho this plain had once been the pride ...of the country. ( 142 ) country. Lands, which in the evening would have let for twenty fhillings an acre, by the morning-light WQre not worth fix-pence. On this well cultivated plain twenty-eight femilics had therr dwellings, and little farms ^ every one of which, except a few, who lived near the fkirts of it, had the world totally to begin again. Mr. Graham, agreeably to the prudential maxims he has ever obferved, affords them little afliftance himfelf ; and difcoTirages the bourrty of others. He feems to wifti his dominions Ihould thrive by in- duftry alone; and" would have his fubjefts depend on this great virtue for the fupply of every want, and the reparation of ever)r lofs.
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