The Beauties of England and Wales, or, Delineations, topographical, historical, and descriptive, of each county (1801)
Britton, John, 1771-1857, Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854, Nightingale, Joseph, 1775-1824, Brewer, J. N. (James Norris), Evans, J. (John), fl. 1812, Hodgson, John, 1779-1845, Laird, Francis Charles, Shoberl, Frederic, 1775-1853, Bigland, John, 1750-1832, Rees, Thomas, 1777-1864, Hood, Thomas, d. 1811, Harris, John, 1756-1846 · London : Printed by Thomas Maiden, for Vernor and Hood [and 6 others] · leaf 532
t many of its most agreeable features arereal. The house stood, says Fielding, on the south-eastside of a hill, but nearer the bottom than the top of it, so as tobe sheltered from the north-east by a grove of old oaks, whichrose above it in a gradual ascent of near half a mile, and yethigh enough… … SOMERSETSHIRE. 439 spring, gushing out of a rock covered with firs, and forming aconstant cascade of about thirty feet, not carried down a regu-lar flight of steps, but tumbling in a natural fall over thebroken and mossy stones, till it came to the bottom of therock ; then running off in a pebbly…
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