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Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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[Footnote
86:
The
house
belonging
to
the
Earls
of
Hopetoun
at
Leadhills,
not
that
which
bears
this
name
about
twelve
miles
from
Edinburgh.--J.
C.
S.]
The
general
face
of
the
country
near
Hamilton
is
much
in
the
ordinary
English
style;
not
very
hilly,
with
hedgerows,
corn
fields,
and
stone
houses.
The
Clyde
is
here
an
open
river
with
low
banks,
and
the
country
spreads
out
so
wide
that
there
is
no
appearance
of
a
regular
vale.
Baroncleugh
is
in
a
beautiful
deep
glen
through
which
runs
the
river
Avon,
a
stream
that
falls
into
the
Clyde.
The
house
stands
very
sweetly
in
complete
retirement;
it
has
its
gardens
and
terraces
one
above
another,
with
flights
of
steps
between,
box-trees
and
yew-trees
cut
in
fantastic
shapes,
flower-borders
and
summer-houses;
and,
still
below,
apples
and
pears
were
hanging
in
abundance
on
the
branches
of
large
old
trees,
which
grew
intermingled
with
the
natural
wood,
elms,
beeches,
etc.,
even
to
the
water's
edge.
The
whole
place
is
in
perfect
harmony
with
the
taste
of
our
ancestors,
and
the
yews
and
hollies
are
shaven
as
nicely,
and
the
gravel
walks
and
flower-borders
kept
in
as
exact
order,
as
if
the
spirit
of
the
first
architect
of
the
terraces
still
presided
over
them.
The
opposite
bank
of
the
river
is
left
in
its
natural
wildness,
and
nothing
was
to
be
seen
higher
up
but
the
deep
dell,
its
steep
banks
being
covered
with
fine
trees,
a
beautiful
relief
or
contrast
to
the
garden,
which
is
one
of
the
most
elaborate
old
things
ever
seen,
a
little
hanging
garden
of
Babylon.
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