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When this island was overrun teith beasts ofin the shape of quadrupeds, and awless bipeds, the baron and tbe man of wealth found it necessary to shut themselves within castellated mansions andcircumvaHated domains; and hence the vulgar association hetween such establishments aud a presumed high rank of their occupiers. The state of the country and of modern society revu ders them no longer essential to security; yet they are maintained as the effect of a false association; and half the stimulus of avarice would be lost without the anticipated grandeur of a monastic estblish raent, buried in the centre of e wood, and cut. off from rht cheerful irorld, and the healthful circulation of lip atmosphere, by damp end moulder It does not signify bow apparently bow unappropriate to ixed habits, how unvarying tho inani- male scene, bow much tho inmates may be visited by low fevers, agues, rheuina- tisms, and pulmonary affections; the manor-house, or the ancient monastery, which bus for ages beoo the residence of aebility, becomes, in consequence, the tseed of wealth, and the goal of volgar hope, to be patiently endured, however little it may be enjoyed !