the objects of her generosity, herself was the only person forgotten. In her diet she was ever abstemious, and would sometimes pleasantly boast, that she had scarce ever tasted wine or physic during her whole life. Of the elegance of dress, she had never been fond; but in her latter life she laid it entirely aside, wearing nothing for many years but a close habit of plain black serge; her retinue was merely for use, not parade. Besides her common domestics, she had always two lady's of education, who lived with her. Many hours she spent alone; at other times they read to her, and were her companions. Her chief expense, as far as concerned herself, was in books. Her library was stored with all the best writers in the English language; she knew no other.

Such was the life of this excellent lady, equally suited to any station in which God had pleased to place her. It was a life of no more indulgence than the most abridged circumstances would have allowed. Her ability in doing good was that only in which she exceeded others.

She lived twenty-six years after the death of her second husband. Providence lengthening out her life as a blessing to the country, beyond her eightieth year. The 23d of March, 1675, was the day of her dissolution; one of the most

melancholy days the northern counties ever experienced. In her ended the noble family of the Cliffords. Her daughter Margaret, by the Earl of Dorset, (her sole surviving heiress) marrying the Earl of Thanet, carried the Clifford estates into the Tufton family.

GILPIN.

The village of HARROWGATE is situated on the river Nid. In it are no less than four different mineral waters. "Tis frequented by great numbers of people of fashion during the summer season. We went down a very steep hill from the town of Knaresborough to the river, and crossed it upon a stone bridge of two arches ; near one end of the bridge we saw a cell, which had been dug out of a solid rock, and is called St. Roberts' Chapel. The river is shallow, but the stream is rapid and interrupted in its course by several large stones, which occasions a very agreeable murmuring. We walked along the side of the river till we came to the petrifying spring; or as it is more commonly called, the dropping well. This spring rises about two miles distant, and runs most part of the way under ground to this place. The water falls from a rock 16 or 17 feet high, and as it bends in a circular pro

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jection from the bottom to the top, in such a manner as that its brow hangs over about four or five feet, the water does not run down the side, but drops very fast from 30 or 40 places at the top, into a bason which it has hollowed in the ground; and every drop creates a musical kind of tinkling, which is probably owing to the concavity of the rock. We saw several pieces of moss which were petrified by this water. Tradition tells, that near this rock the famous mother Shipton was born. We spent several hours hereabouts, and were at last obliged by the coming on of the night, to leave with reluctance a place, where nature has elegantly disposed of every ingredient she could bestow to form a cheerful and pleasing scene. Whilst we walked under a shade of spreading trees, and were entertained with the dribbling of the water from the rock, and the rippling of the river, we saw the venerable ruins of a large castle, and a charming intermixture of rocks and trees on the opposite hill; above it part of the tower of Knaresborough church made its appearance, and through the trees we had several broken views of the town. From the dropping well, there are walks along the river side; and as the river circles very much, we had various points of view, which rendered the scene diversified and varied.

STUDLEY PARK is delightfully situated, a few miles from the village; the house is a very good one, and contains several spacious apartments well fitted up; but the pleasure grounds are the principal objects of attention. The first thing we were led to was the banquetinghouse, a handsome building, containing a well proportioned room for dining, and a sleeping one with a sopha, within a screen, of very light elegant carving. In the former, is a statue of Venus of Medicis. At one corner of the lawn, (laid out in the form of a coffin) in front of this building, stands an Ionic dome temple in ruins, from which the views are various and pleasing. There are two of water partly surrounded with wood; another up to a Gothic tower, upon a fine rising ground; a fourth down upon a basin of water, with a portico upon the banks, beside others. Advancing up the hill to the right, which looked down upon a double cascade, one falling to appearance from out of a cavern of rock, in a just taste, into a canal, which forms a little beneath you another fall, and then is lost to the left behind a wood. Winding yet further to the right, and crossing a woody vale, we mounted a little hill with a tent on the summit, in a very picturesque and agreeable situation,; for you look down on a fine

winding lake which floats the valley, surrounded by a bold shore of wood, rising from its very banks; in one part of it a green seat is seen, and an arch in another. From this hill we were next conducted to FOUNTAINS' ABBEY, an exeeeding fine ruin, adjoining and in sight of his grounds, lately purchased by Mr. A. The extent of the building was very great, and many parts of it perfectly complete. Returning from the abbey, you wind in the valley on the banks of the lake, at the bottom of the tent hill. This spot is exceedingly beautiful; that hill or cone of rising wood is exquisitely pretty. From hence the walk rises upon the edge of the surrounding hills, which are covered with wood, and through the trees you catch many obscure views that are truly picturesque; you look through them down the lake in a most pleasing manner, and have also a beautiful view of the abbey. After this you command a river, winding ground the tent hill, covered with trees, and all encircled by a noble amphitheatre of hanging woods; the river meandring towards the abbey, which is seen to infinite advantage. The next view is from the green seat, where the noble ruins appear in a varied situation. Next we come to the white bench, from which the. landscape is different from any of the preceding.