licity, and domestic quiet, and heightens the charms of nature. In confined prospects this is generally a pleasing union. Extensive scenes owe much of their effect to the variety of ob jects presented, which, in a cultivated mind, excite an infinite train of associations. Devoid of this variety, they inspire elevated and en larged sentiments; yet, in both cases, perhaps, the gratification they afford, though consider able, is vague, the imagination being chiefly interested; but there is a peculiar pleasure arising from the contemplation of domestic happiness, when thus connected with rural beauty, which awakens the best feelings of the heart. Amidst the jarring discords of public life, the social principle becomes feeble and inert; the vices and the miseries of society render the soul insensible to the tender sympathies of Nature; but the pure charms of the country, the quiet, simplicity, and innocence of rural life, are so congenial to the heart of man, that they seldom fail to tranquilise the perturbations of worldly anxiety, and renovate the dormant af fections. B 'O! friendly to the best pursuits of man, Friendly to thought, to virtue, and to peace, Few know thy value, and few taste thy sweets.' COWPER. The road immediately beyond Weston-mill presents, from its steepness, a very formidable ascent, which is, however, occasionally relieved by a pleasing retrospect of the village. A cottage at the summit has the very appropriate name of 'Traveller's Rest.' A little beyond this, you leave the Saltash road to the left, and arrive at the village of King's Tamerton, consisting of five or six cottages; some of which are the most picturesque we have seen in Devonshire. Their tall chimnies, projecting in front of the house, a circumstance common in this county, have a very happy effect; while the surface of the walls, and the roofs, encrusted with lichens and mosses of a thousand hues, exhibit specimens of colouring not easily imitated or described. These beautiful sportings of Nature would be totally lost, if the custom, so prevalent in many parts of Wales, of white-washing the walls, and even roofs, of cot |