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<Q A 1757 FN ED EMONTAGU> <X ELIZABETH MONTAGU> [}ELIZABETH MONTAGU TO EDWARD MONTAGU. 1757? KINGS WESTON. bMS ENG 1365 (148)}] <P1> Kings Weston thursday night [\ADDED 1757\] My Dearest I came to this place yesterday & never were my eyes so entertaind with fine views, from my Dressing Room I look upon a reach of the Severn Sea of near 40 miles in length & many in breadth, the ships lying before my window, the eye is [\led to\] this prospect over a fine Country well wooded & very green the land prospects are rich & gay, & upon y=e= whole it is the finest place I ever saw, the House is a very good one, the Lady of the Mansion is worthy of all the charms of the situation. She carried me this morning to y=e= hot well at Bristol. the road thither from this place is most delightfull, the Country rich & beautifull, & with all the advantages of cultivation & habitation it has y=e= wild beauties of Nature vast Rocks coverd with Wood y=e= River Avon winding among them. Tomorrow morning early we are to cross y=e= Severn to see M=r= Morris fine place which is reckond ye most beautifull in great Brittain. We shall return at night. On Sunday evening we return to Bath Easton <P2> and on tuesday night I hope to find you well at Sandleford I have improved my health & received as much pleasure in my jaunt as it is possible to enjoy separated from you but I begin to be impatient to return to my Dear friend. I am greatly hurried the day having been consumed in rambling, & I steal this time to write from what sh=d= be dedicated to sleep so as I am to rise early tomorrow hope you will excuse the shortness of my letter. M=rs= Southwell & y=e= other Ladies desire their compt=ts=. I am My Dearest Your most affect=te= & Faithfull E Montagu