The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829

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Various. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829

CLIFTON

LITERARY PROBLEM

MANNERS & CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS

THE GENOESE.1

THE NAUTILUS. WRITTEN FOR MUSIC

PARAPHRASE ON BISHOP HEBER'S PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFE

ON VEILS

THE SKETCH-BOOK

A NIGHT IN A SEDAN CHAIR

SPIRIT OF DISCOVERY

NOTES OF A READER

A BOTTLE OF GOOD WINE

ST. SAVIOUR, SOUTHWARK.4

HUMAN LIFE

SHUMLA

COURT FLATTERY

A BARGAIN

CITY PAGEANTS

MOONLIGHT

PERILS OF TRAVEL

TITLES

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

"SIR DAN DANN'LY, THE IRISH HAROE."

I'D BE A PARODY

THE ANECDOTE GALLERY

VISIT TO FERNEY IN 1829

THE GATHERER

A WELSH RABBIT

ODD MEAL

THE COMEDY OF LIFE

DUKE OF GRAFTON

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Clifton is the Montpellier of England, and is associated with all that is delightful in nature: of this, the Engraving before us is a true picture, whether we contemplate the winding Avon; the sublime beauty of its rocks—

(as Mr. Bowles poetically calls them), the picturesque scenery of the opposite shore; or the abodes of cottage comforts which cluster into a rural village beside the cliff till the eye reaches a splendid range of crescents and terraces which art has reared on the stupendous brow above.

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Our view of Clifton is from the Ferry, and is from an effective lithograph, of very recent date.

Added to the charms of the romantic scenery of Clifton are the attractions of the Bristol Hot Wells, in the vicinity; upon which fashion has conferred too great celebrity to render description needful. The richness and grandeur of the scenery of the Hot Wells are almost inconceivable; in some places the rocks, venerably majestic, rise perpendicularly, or overhanging, craggy and bare; and in others they are clothed with luxuriant shrubs and stately trees. From the bottom of these cliffs, on the east bank of the river, issues the Bristol Hot Well water. The spring rises out of an aperture in the solid rocks and is computed to discharge about forty gallons in a minute.

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