As you look off from the southern ridge or wall of the valley, you seem to stand on the cord of a segment of a circle, the radius of which touches the horizon at about five miles to the north.

This crescent is filled with the most delicate lineaments of Nature's beauty.

The opposite walls of the gallery slope upward from the meandering Wharf so gently and yet reach the blue ceiling of the sky so near, that all the paintings that panel them are vividly distinct to your eye, and you can group all their lights and shades in the compass of a single glance.
On the opposite side, half hidden and half revealed among the trees of an ample park, stands Farnley Hall, a historical residence of an old historical family.

I had a letter of introduction to the present proprietor, Mr.Fawkes, who, I hope, will not deem it a disparagement to be called one of the Knights of the Shorthorns--a more extensive, useful, and cosmopolitan order than were the Knights of Rhodes or of Malta.

Unfortunately for me, he was not at home; but his steward, a very intelligent, gentlemanly and genial man, took me over the establishment, and showed me all the stock that was stabled, mostly bulls of different ages.