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Pub May 1.1805. by Vernor & Hood Poultry J.Storer & J Grela, Chapel St.Pentonville
BRUAR UPPER FALL.

There, high my boiling torrent amenks:
Wild-roaring o'er à linn:

present, the young plants are so small, that they rather injure than grace the view. It is to bẹ hoped that soon "ashes cool" and "fragrant birks in woodbines drest," will be added to the firs already planted; and then, and not till then, we conceive, will the beautiful and romantic picture which Burns has delineated be complete.

The entrance to the grounds is on the side of the high road, close to the banks of the Bruar, over which the road is constructed. Immediately on entering, a walk presents itself, ornamented with many beautiful cascades and rocks fantastically excavated; which, doubtless, created in the mind of the bard the sensations expressed in the following lines:

"Here, haply too, at vernal dawn,
Some musing bard may stray,
And eye the smoking, dewy lawn,
And misty mountains grey;
Or, by the reaper's nightly beam,
Mild, chequering through the trees,
Rave to my darkly dashing stream,
Hoarse, swelling on the breeze."

Proceeding along this walk about a mile, through scenes of the most wild and extravagant description, and which receive additional sublimity from the incessant murmuring of the various minor falls of water, the hoarser clamour of the principal

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cataracts begin to be distinguished; and, on advancing, every feebler sound is gradually precluded. Water-falls of any considerable magnitude, with their general concomitants, are of the most imposing nature, and fill the mind with ideas which none but a poet can happily express.

The first, or lower fall, though inferior to the upper one in height, on account of its greater breadth, claims a decided preference.

Crossing the rapid stream by a bridge of rude stone, the path winds its undulated course through scenes of increasing grandeur, to the upper fall; here the Bruar precipitates itself from a considerable height between immense rocks, whose jutting points and shelvy breadths but accelerate its speed; and, surmounting every obstruction, it rolls its headlong torrent to the deepworn chasm, with indignant roar.

The duke has erected in front of each of the falls a commodious hovel, from which they may be seen to great advantage. The land in the immediate vicinity of the Bruar is remarkable only for its steril appearance; which is perhaps incurable. We are inclined to believe that, if the soil would admit of cultivation, the poet's lamentation, on behalf of the stream, would not have been occasioned.

"Along these lonely regions, where, retir'd
From little scenes of art, great Nature dwells
In awful solitude."..

A most striking contrast is exhibited to the highly-cultivated pleasure grounds of the nobility and gentry in general.