To My Infinite
Disappointment, Within The Space Of An Hour, The Sky Had Become
Overcast, And It Was Now So Cloudy That I Could Not Even See, Nor Of
Course Enjoy One Half Of The Delightful Prospect That Lay Before Me.
On the top of this hill is an alley of chestnut trees, under which
here and there seats are placed.
Behind the alley is a row of well-
built gentlemen's country seats. One does not wonder to see it thus
occupied; besides the pure air, the prospect exceeds everything else
of the kind in the world. I never saw a palace which, if I were the
owner of it, I would not give for any of the houses I now saw on
Richmond Terrace.
The descent of the hill to the Thames is covered with verdure, the
Thames at the foot of it forms near a semicircle, in which it seems
to embrace woody plains, with meadows and country seats in its
bosom. On one side you see the town and its magnificent bridge, and
on the other a dark wood.
At a distance you could perceive, peeping out among the meadows and
woods, sundry small villages, so that notwithstanding the dulness of
the weather, this prospect even now was one of the finest I had ever
seen. But what is the reason that yesterday evening my feelings
were far more acute and lively, the impressions made on me much
stronger, when from the vale I viewed the hill and fancied that
there was in it every thing that was delightful, than they are this
morning, when from the hill I overlooked the vale and knew pretty
exactly what it contained?
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