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LETTER IV.

TO THE SAME.

DEAR SIR,
Newcastle, June 22d.

WITH the scenery of Hackfall we bade along farewell to picturesque beauty; for in proportion as we approached the eastern coast of the kingdom, the features of Nature became more tame and insipid. Our attention, however, was called at Catterick to an artificial curiosity the