Observations Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty Made in the Year 1776 On
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Objects often owe their happieft effects to accidental circumflances ; and among others, as we have often obferved, to evening funs. Let the picturefque traveller watch for thefe effects, and attend clofely to them, when he finds ( 75. ) finds them accompanied with a noble land- fcape. We had this accompaniment at Black- nefs-caftle. The fun was now fet, and the fhades of evening were more and more effacing that ruddy glow, which had not yet left the horizon. Right againil this fading fplendor ...role the towers of the caflle. The outline appeared very dillin&j but all the detail, and furface were loft in obfcurity : while the land- fcape around was overfpread with that grey, and dubious tint, which brought the whole into the exacteft harmony. From hence we directed our courfe to Fal- kirk. At Linlithgow, which lies in the road, the kings of Scotland had formerly one of their nobleft palaces ; in the number and grandeur of which they feem to have equalled any princes in Europe. This palace ftands on a riung ground running into a lake ; a fituation which can rarely fail of pleating ; but we were pre- vented by the weather from taking fuch a view of it as we wihed.
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