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fubfiding into a vaft flat, ftretches far and wide 

 into diftance. On a promontory overlooking 

 this extenlive plain, ftands Tutbury-caftle, 



once the manfion of the dukes of Lancafter. 



As you wind round from the eaftern to the 

 fouthern extremity, the views, tho remotely 

 bounded by hills, continue flat, and diftant. 

 The great object on this fide is Litchfield- 

 cathedral, which rifing in the middle of the 

 plain, is every where feen to great advantage. 



With regard to the internal parts of the 

 foreft, we find it's grandeft effect of woody 

 fcenery along it's northern boundary, where 

 a bold range of woods ftretch for feveral miles 

 together, in one vaft irregular fweep. And 

 what often adds fingular beauty to this part, 

 the fteep cliff, which bounds it, often defcends 

 fuddenly, in deep, and narrow wooded vallies, 



to the level of the country below. There 



is fomething of the fame effect: of fcenery alfo 



on the fouth-weft part of the foreft. As we 



pafs more into the internal parts, we find much 

 variety of ground, and fcenes of great beauty 

 from the number, and different forms of the 

 lawns, and the varied outline of the woods, 

 which incompafs them. Many of the trees 

 indeed are of the under-rate kinds, as maples, 



hazels, 



