THE TOPOGRAPHER
CLIFTON HOT WELLS
Glide, Avon, gently glide....
More prodigal in beauty than the dreams
Of fantasy,… beneath the chain
Of mingled wood and precipice, that seems
To buttress up the wave, whose silvery gleams
Stretch far beyond, where Severn leads the train.
Gilpin says, and says truly, that "the west is the region of fine landscape;" it also follows as a natural consequence that it predominates in the number of its artists. The beautiful vignette of Clifton in a recent number of the MIRROR,9 has recalled a multitude of interesting recollections to my mind. I have passed a good deal of time there at several periods, and as the writer of the description accompanying the vignette has been led into an error or two, perhaps a few desultory notes by way of pendant to his paper, may not be entirely devoid of interest to the reader.
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1
Manual, translated by Gore.
2
Gill's Technological Repository, vol. iv. p. 208.
3
Travels in China.
1
Manual, translated by Gore.
2
Gill's Technological Repository, vol. iv. p. 208.
3
Travels in China.
4
Tour on the Continent.
5
Nat. Hist. Norway.
6
See, for instance, the narrative of an accident from the rising of such an animal, in W. Tench's "Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson."
7
See a remarkable instance in
8
All this must be understood with some limitations, otherwise we must suppose that all the inhabitants of Egypt had not only learned to write, but that they had sufficient talents and knowledge of the laws, to draw up their own defences, which is not to be supposed. This law then must have been liable to some exceptions and modifications. We must say the same thing of other countries where they tell us there are no advocates, and that all trials are carried on in writing, as in Siam, China, Bantam, &c.
9
See MIRROR, No. 390.