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and glory of the Welsh; and, happy fouls!
why should they not in a sultry summer's
day, enjoy the suffocating luxury of a long
blue cloak, as well as the Londoner his
summer theatre, amidst " the raging dog
" star's heat."

IN an extensive tour through Wales, I
witnessed a scene at Aberystwith very similar
to that I have just described, and as the sur-
rounding objects were there more peculiarly
marked with the picturesque than those
at Builth, a representation of the scene,
although at a considerable distance from
hence, may perhaps not prove unacceptable
to the reader. In this view appears part of
the castellated dwelling of Uvedale Price,
Esq; a man not less distinguished for the
elegance with which he cultivates the fine
arts, than for his powers of discrimination,
and the accuracy with which he defines them.

The

Shelburne del

Market at Aberystwyth.

Dated from December 1779.

A View of the

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hills, the hanging woods, the rolling
stream, the nodding ruin, the surviving
monuments of fallen grandeur and beauty
in decay; the constructed space, the stillness
and retirement, all confide to imitate the
mind with awe, and for a moment withdraw
from its vain pursuit of wealth and power,
and abstract it from the world. On this re-
main, a very able writer has remarked, that
" were the building ever so beautiful, in-
" compassed as it is with shabby houses, it
" could make no appearance from the ri-
" ver." In this we essentially differ, and
present the annexed view in support of our
opinion. Here every cottage appears as it
really exists on the spot; and the petty, or
if you please paltry accompaniments to
which he alludes, appear to us so far from
diminishing the grandeur of the general
effect, that they serve rather on the con-
trary as a scale, and give magnitude to the
principal object.

THE

proportions, and all the decencies of orthodox worship. The noble clustered columns form a beautiful scene in perspective; and, while some of the rich Gothic ornaments and pointed arches above, present themselves as if magically suspended, and raise an idea of grandeur, accompanied, if not with alarm with some degree of surprise, the various ruined fragments of capitals and pillars below, which lie scattered indiscriminately and in part overgrown and buried in beds of wild flowers and verdant tendrils, create an interesting disorder, and fuggeft ideas, though perhaps of a melancholy tinge, yet so far from a distreffing nature as to lull the mind to a repose, congenial to the general turn of the surrounding scenery.

THE smooth and trim manner in which the ground is here kept, is not, according to our conception, very much in unison with the assemblage of objects around, where broken-