Identifier: journaloftourres00simorich (find matches)
Title: Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain (electronic resource) : during the years 1810 and 1811
Year: 1815 (1810s)
Authors: Simond, L. (Louis), 1767-1831
Subjects: Great Britain -- Description and travel Great Britain -- Social life and customs 19th century
Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rsPool. It is an irregular valley, with fine crumblingrocks on each side, torn from each other by someviolent convulsion of the earth ; the appearance ofthe whole being that of a wide rent of the earthacross an extensive plain. A beautiful little streamwinds along the vale, and very fine evergreensgrow among the rocks. The situation is so shelter-ed, that grass is quite green, and many plants beginto shoot; the buds of hazel-bushes shew alreadytheir beautiful little tassels of bright red. Thewind is still so high, that many of the windmills,which are very numerous, are turning fast underbare poles, yet it ;vas calm in the valley. Ploughsare at work everywhere, many with four horses ina line. JMurcli 4.—To Rippon, ^2 miles. We have vi-sited to-diiy the ruins of Fountaines Ahbey ; theycover about five acres of ground, at the fartliest ex-tremity of a peaceful and sequestered valley, per-haps 400 yards in breadth, and one mile in length,bounded on cither side by rocks and trees, with a
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STUDLY PARK—NEWBY HALL. 65 clear stream of water winding along it. A hightower remains entire; loo much so for beauty.The chapel, of which T took a drawing, is fine.The style of the ruins is, nj)on the whole, heavy;but their extent, and particularly their situation,render them the most striking thing of the kind wehave seen. There are six or seven immense yew-trees behind the abbev,—one is 28 feet in circum-ference ; they were there, and recorded as largetrees before it was built (1150)! This beautiful valley and ruins are a mere ap-pendage of Studly Park, in which they are situ-ated. The grounds are varied, and planted withgreat judgment, principally with evergreens, whichat this season appear in full glory; several, how-ever, lay prostrate, broken down or uprooted bythe wind. The silver firs are the finest trees here.The house itself does not correspond to the mag-nificence of the place. It seems as if a Gothicfront had been tacked to it, so as to let a Grecianpediment peep over

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