Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 43 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 43: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a travel narrative or travelogue. The text describes a visit to the Salmon-leap waterfall in Ireland, formed by the River Liffey, which the narrator finds beautiful though inferior to the waterfall at Bally-Shannon. The passage includes the narrator's appreciative reflections on how nature has been refined by art at this location, accompanied by a poetic quotation about solitude and contemplation. The page ends as the narrator begins describing paintings and views seen from a house at the site.
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A MONTH’s TOUR. 43 which conduéted us to a beautiful fall of water called the Salmon-leap, far inferior to that at Bally-Shannon, which is four- teen yards perpendicular height. This is formed by the Liffey rufhing through an arch, and tumbling down a:rock of a con+ fiderable height. The rudenefs of nature is: here fo judi- cioufly chaftifed by-art, that: the place exhi= bits a fcene highly pleafing and piftu- refque. Iwas delighted with it to fuch a degree, that I'quitted with infinite re= gret ame Thefe deep folitudés, and ‘awftl :cells,. _ 4 Where heav’nly-penfive Contemplation .dweils.*”” Inthe houfe we faw feveral good paint- ings, and from the. top of it were prefented F 2 with comicbooks.com