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CONTENTS.
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| CHAPTER IX. | ||
| Detour.—The Leasowes deteriorated wherever the Poet had built, and improved wherever he had planted.—View from the Hanging Wood.—Stratagem of the Island Screen.—Virgil's Grave.—Mound of the Hales Owen and Birmingham Canal; its sad Interference with Shenstone's Poetic Description of the Infancy of the Stour.—Vanished Cascade and Root-house.—Somerville's Urn.—"To all Friends round the Wrekin."—River Scenery of the Leasowes; their great Variety.—Peculiar Arts of the Poet; his Vistas, when seen from the wrong end, Realizations of Hogarth's Caricature.—Shenstone the greatest of Landscape Gardeners.—Estimate of Johnson.—Goldsmith's History of the Leasowes; their after History | 175 | |
| CHAPTER X. | ||
| Shenstone's Verses.—The singular Unhappiness of his Paradise.—English Cider.—Scotch and English Dwellings contrasted.—The Nailers of Hales Owen; their Politics a Century ago.—Competition of the Scotch Nailers; unsuccessful, and why.—Samuel Salt, the Hales Owen Poet.—Village Church.—Salt Works at Droitwich; their great Antiquity.—Appearance of the Village.—Problem furnished by the Sal Deposits of England; various Theories.—Rock Salt deemed by some 8 Volcanic Product; by others the Deposition of an overcharged Sea; by yet others the Produce of vast Lagoons.—Leland.—The Manufacture of Salt from Sea-water superseded, even in Scotland, by the Rock Salt of England | 193 | |
| CHAPTER XI. | ||
| Walk to the Clent Hills.—Incident in a Fruit Shop.—St. Kenelm's Chapel. -Legend of St. Kenelm.—Ancient Village of Clent; its Ap- | ||
