thing can be more charming than these shores and breaking waters, the rocky precipices and the woody hills, which furround this little region. What then fhould hinder but that I here fit down, and put an end to my adventures; as the few things that are wanting may be had at the next town, and a ftock for years be in a few days fecured? The man I am looking for may never be found; and if I fhould meet with him, his circumstances and temper may be changed: then, as to the world, I know not how to deal in any kind of business; and to live on the fmall fortune in my poffeffion, must reduce me to poverty very foon. Here then it is good for me to refide, and make myself as happy as I can, if it be not in my power to be as happy as I would. I have two lads with me, who are active, ufeful young men, willing to work, and pleased to stay whereever I am; and if I can commence a matrimonial relation with fome fenfible, goodhumoured, dear delightful girl of the mountains, and perfuade her to be the chearful partner of my ftill life, nature and reafon will create the higheft fcenes of felicity, and we shall live as it were in the fuburbs of heaven. My lads too may pick up among the hills, upon fcripture principles, two bouncing females: and a flate will in a little time be formed. This is fine. For once in my life I am fortunate. And fuppose, this partner I want in my folitude could be Mifs Melmoth, one of the wifest and most difcreet of women; a thinking bloom, and good-humour itself in a human figure; then indeed I must be happy in this filent, romantic station. This fpot of earth would then have all the felicities.- -Refolved. Conclufum eft contra Manicheos, faid the great St. Austin, and with a thump of his fist, he cracked the table. ral icene. 55. Thus was my head employed, while A fine ruI fmoaked a pipe after fupper, and I determined to return to Orton's manfion, after I had found a way out of Stanemore: but the previous question was, how I fhould get out of the place I was in, without going back, as there appeared no paffage onwards. I tried every angle the next morning, to no purpose, and in vain attempted fome hills that were too steep for the horses. Down then again I went to the bottom of the black and narrow glin afore-mentioned, and with lights obferved the rumbling deep river. It appeared more frightful than the first time I faw it, and there was no venturing into it. This troubled me not a little, as the water was not above eight yards broad, and there was an afcending glin on the other fide of it, that appeared to rife into a fine woody country. It was not half the length of that we had had defcended, nor near fo fteep; it began to widen at the distance of a hundred yards from the water, fo as to fhew, at the fummit, a fine plain, encompaffed with a sweep of foreft. We could fee the fun fhining there. The view in contraft was quite charming. For fome time I ftood in this perplexed condition by the water-fide, and could not tell what to do, when one of the lads came running to me, to let me know, that as he carefully examined the fides of the glin we came down, he difcovered to the left, about fourfcore yards above the river, a pass wide enough for one horfe to go through, and he believed it was a way out. This was reviving news, and upon going into it, I found that it went ftraight on among the mountains, like a rent, or open crack, for three hundred yards, and then turned to the left for about fifty more, when it winded a little, and began to extend wider and wider every yard, till it brought us by feveral turnings to the beginning of a fine valley, where we again found the river we had feen in the bottom of the deep glin, and perceived that it ended in a great water, and went off in fome fubterranean way. The mountains were almost clofe to this fine water, on either hand, for near half a mile, and made a delightful rural fcene. 3 fcene. We could fee the river, as we looked up it, come tumbling on for a great way between the steep rocky precipices; and the broad bright lake it formed between vast frowning mountains, with wood and lawns in it, at the end of the vale, were altogether a view most charming. This made me more highly value Orton-Lodge. A defcrip nary cave 56. There is a cave there likewife that tion of an adds great beauty to the place, and in charms extraordiand wonders, exceeds the grot of Tunis, in Stane(a few miles east of Carthage, directly under more. Cape-Bonn, formerly called the promontory of Mercury), where Æneas fheltered during the ftorm (25.); and St. Donat's Cave in Glamorganshire, (25.) Dr. Shaw in his travels, fhews that the cave near Cape Bonn was the grot which Virgil defcribes in the following manner Defeffi Æneadæ, quæ proxima, litora curfu quora tuta filent. Tum fylvis fcena corufcis The morganshire, which is much more beautiful The weary Trojans ply their shatter'd oars The Trojans, weary'd with the ftorms, explore Within a long recefs there lies a bay, than D. P. D. Far in a deep recefs, her jutting fides An ifle projects, to break the rolling tides, And forms a port, where, curling from the fea, P. D. Betwixt two rows of rocks, a fylvan scene On either fide, fublime in air, arife Two tow'ring rocks, whofe fummits brave the fkies; Low at their feet the fleeping ocean lies: Crown'd with a gloomy fhade of waving woods, A grot is form'd beneath, with mofly feats. Oppos'd to thefe, a fecret grotto ftands, And limpid rills, that tinkle as they run. P. There |