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Excerpt from Observations, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, Made in the Year 1776, on Several Parts of Great Britain, Vol. 2: Particularly the High-Lands of Scotland
Their fituation alfo upon the lake Operated as another caufe, to imprefs the idea of grandeur. Nothing exalts the dignity of a mountain fo much, as it's rifing from the water's edge. In meafuring it, as it appears connected with the ground, the ~eye knows not where to begin, but continues creeping up in quelt of a bath, till half the mountain is loft. But a water-line prevents this am biguity 5 and to the height of the mountain even adds the edging at the bottom, which naturally belongs,not to It. Thus the moun tain of Doniquaick, - feen from the new Inn at Inverary, appears as if It rofe from the water's edge, tho in fact the duke of Argyle's lawn intervenes, all which the mountain ap propriates: and tho it meafures only eight hundred and thirty - five feet, it has a more refpeé'cable appearance, than many mountains Of twiceit's height unconnected with, water.
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