Picturesque Views on the River Wye, from Its Source at Plinlimmon Hill, to Its Junction with the Severn Below Chepstow: With Observations on the Public Buildings, and Other Works of Art, in Its Vicinity (Classic Reprint)

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Nature and Art have molt happily combined in opening their richef't fiores to diverfify and fpread fertility, grandeur and beauty over the country through which it flows for its environ is not lefs highly dif tinguifhed and drefi'ed by the hand of art with cal'tles, abbies, and villas beautifully feated on its banks, than it is itfelf favoured by nature, in the firiking interchange of lhoal and flood, wood and rock, meadow and precipice. With (0 much, and in fo many various ways to allure and interefi, it was not pollible that all its charms could have efcaped either the penetrating eye of Taite and Genius, or the pencil of the irr quifitive, refined, and lyftematical Amateur.

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