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Drawn Engraved by Ja? Storer

Pub May 11808. by Vernor & Hood Poultry J.Store & J Greg, Chapel St.Pentonville
BRUAR UPPER FALL.

There high my boiling torrent smeaks;
Wild-roaring vir à linn!

present, the young plants are so small, that they rather injore than grace the view. It is to be hoped that soon "ashes cool" and "fragrant birks in woodbines drest," will be added to the firs already planted; and then, and not till then, we conceive, will the beautiful and romantic picture which Burns has delineated be complete.

The entrance to the grounds is on the side. of the high road, close to the banks of the Bruar, over which the road is constructed. Immediate

ly on entering, a walk presents itself, ornamented with many beautiful cascades and rocks fantastically excavated; which, doubtless, created in the mind of the bard the sensations expressed in the following lines:

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Proceeding along this walk about a mile, through scenes of the most wild and extravagant description, and which receive additional sublimity from the incessant murmuring of the various minor falls of water, the hoarser clamour of the principal

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