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 asks questions; returns answers; and repeats po- etry. Passing over the Pont de Suisse, a rude bridge (thrown across the gulph which separates the rocky mountain on which we had been hitherto engaged, from its sublime neighbour, where the view is extreme] v awful) we mounted the obelisk, erected on the highest point of the terrace, from whence is a view one hundred miles in diameter, with this beautiful singularity, that the eye is in no one direetoii lost in space, but every where meets with a resting-point in the beautiful belt of ii, tant mountains that bound the horizon. Leaving this modern decoration, we crossed the park to a remain of antiquity; a noble example of Roman castramctation called Bury -Walls, one of the most perfect of the kind in Europe, containing about thine acres within its mounds. Nature on three sides had sufficiently defended the spot, so that the Romans had only to cast up vallations on the x maining one. But this was done in their best x, le by three high mounds winch rendered the place impregnable. Connected with military mat- ters, though of a much later age, was the place we next visited a cavern in the tower glen, where an ancestor of the Hill family, who was unsuccessful in the service of Charles I. concealed himself for a time from the pursuit of the Parliamentarian forces.

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