OBSERVATIONS 



ON 



FOREST SCENERY. 



BOOK III, 



SECTION I, 



Vv E concluded the laft book with a catalogue' 

 (for it was little more) of the principal forefts, 

 which formerly overfpread the ifland of Britain, 

 None of them at this day pofTefTes it's original 

 grandeur. A few have preferved fome little 

 appearance of fcenery ; but the greater pait are 

 waftes. New-foreft in Hampfhire is among 

 the few, which have retained any ideas of their 



ancient confequence. At leafl it is fupe- 



rior to the reft, on account of the extent of it's 

 boundaries j the variety of it's contents ; and 

 the grandeur of it's fcenes, 



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