IN 'N the view of Habby's House, the under part of the promontory, fouthward the Efk was fhown on the left, in afcending from the the chalybeate fpring; but the entrance into the "How," and the bridge, at the upper end of its face, the fubjects of the plate we are now to attempt a defcription of, were hid by the middle groupes of trees, rifing from the water's edge.

The promontory, and the bustling, fhifting, intricacies of the noify ftream attending it below, are of themselves ftudies from whence a Swanneveldt, or a Both, in decorating their grandeft fcenes, might have drawn advantage; a Weirotter have collected many curious particulars, on which to fhow the neatness of his needle; or a Waterloo, fatisfied with lefs, might have produced a corner, fo natural, rich, and engaging, as to preclude a wifh for more. The reftlefs tranfparent brook, hemmed in by rocks, and darkened with trees and bushes rambling over its bed, and frequently touching its furface, is almoft one continued fucceffion of little falls, infinitely diversified by the wild irregularity of its paffage. Sometimes in a fheet it throws itself over a smooth ftratum of freeftone : fometimes a croffing layer of lime rock, divided into blocks, appears rifing out of it, like ftepping-tones, admitting it to proceed between them. At times only fcattered glimpfes of it are caught, attracting the eye by their fparklings at others, it is almoft buried and loft, amidit huge maffes and fragments mingled with roots and fhrubs, that have fallen from above,

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and can be traced but by the ear; till, after being teazed and worked into a fury by fuch a labyrinth of obftacles and,intricacies, it at laft burfts out, and fhows itself, fretting through the crannies it can find, or spouting and leaping over a thwarting drift, or fixed and folid impediment, the top of which it has gained from behind, by forcing a road for itself equal to the rampart, with fand and gravel; thus converting the infurmountable,oppofing, precipitous front, into a level courfe.

In these refources it is curious to mark the refemblance between the different parts of nature; and to obferve fuch objects attaining their ends through the medium of gravitation, by the fame means that are followed in man through the operation of the understanding. No fooner a body of water, roufed by impulfe into a ftate of activity, finds that a hollow or a height interrupts its progress, if the latter is impervious, or cannot be avoided, or removed by digging, scooping, or mining, than it immediately carries down the nearest portable materials, leaves no stone unturned it can manage, and labours at filling up the ditch, or raifing the ground behind what it cannot otherwife afcend, till it paffes over them with ease. A ftream rendered fluggish and vapid, from the want of ftimulation or attraction, attempts not, to affert its freedom by exertion, to remove or overleap the obstructing barrier; but ftretching itself out. fupinely fleeps with indifference at its back, on mud and among weeds, in the quiet and

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