A field of a few acres, called BRENTRY HILL, near Bristol, commands a most pleasing and extensive view. In the fore- ground are the rich woods of King's Weston, and Blaize Castle, with the picturesque assemblage of gardens and villas in Henbury and Westbury; beyond which are the Severn and Bristol Channel, and the prospect is bounded by the mountains of South Wales. This view is towards the west, and I have generally observed, that the finest prospects in England are all towards this point.* Yet this, of all aspects, is the most unpleasant for a house; it was not, therefore, advisable to give an extended front in this direction, yet it would have been unpardonable not to have taken advantage of so fine a prospect. *[This remark concerning our finest prospects being towards the west, has been so often confirmed by repeated observations, that I have endeavoured to discover some natural cause for its general prevalence; and perhaps it may, in some degree, be accounted for from the general position of the strata in all rocky countries, which appear to dip towards the east and rise towards the west; in one direction, the view is along an inclined plane; in the other, it is taken from the edge of a cliff, or some bold promontory overlooking the country towards the west.]
