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  The Reader’s Neck brought into Danger by a Decription, his Ecape, and the Condecenion of Mis Bridget Allworthy.

HE Gothick Stile of Building could produce nothing nobler than Mr. Allworthy’s Houe. There was an Air of Grandeur in it, that truck you with Awe, and rival’d the Beauties of the bet Grecian Architecture; and it was as commodious within, as venerable without.

It tood on the South-eat Side of a Hill, but nearer the Bottom than the Top of it, o as to be heltered from the North-eat by a Grove of old Oaks, which roe above it in a gradual Acent of near half a Mile, and yet high enough to enjoy a mot charming Propect of the Valley beneath.

In the midt of the Grove was a fine Lawn loping down towards the Houe, near the Summit of which roe a plentiful Spring, guhing out of a Rock covered with Firs, and forming a contant Cacade of about thirty Foot, not carried down a regular Flight of Steps, but tumbling in a natural Fall over the broken and moy Stones, till it came to the bottom of the Rock; then running off in a pebly Channel, that