Note 129 — WRITTEN IN AUTUMN, 1784, AFTER A VISIT TO COLTON, THE SEAT OF WILLIAM GILBERT, ESQ. IN STAFFORDSHIRE.
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l. 11. High on its brow—The accidental fall of part of a rock, in one of the Colton glens, anticipated Mr Gilbert’s design of dividing the straight channel of a stream, which fell down the declivity, by throwing into it stony fragments.