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The dialect of Hampshire, among it's other 

 peculiarities, has a particular tendency to the 

 corruption of pronouns, by confounding their 

 cafes. This corruption prevails through the 

 country ; but it feems to increafe, as we ap- 

 prpach the fea. About the neighbourhood 

 of New-foreft this Doric hath attained it's 

 perfection. The poets of the country have 

 generally a fet of rhimes, which you fee over 

 and over in church-yards fuited, not to cha- 

 racters ; but to parents, children, or other 

 relations. I have oftener than once met with 

 the following tender elegiac. 



Him (hall never come again to we: 

 But us mail furely, one day, go to he. 



Having thus given a fhort account of the 

 prefent ftate of New-foreft, and it's inhabitants 5 

 I haften to the more agreeable part of my 

 work, the defcription of it's fcenery. I have 

 already apprized the reader*, that I propofe 

 to confider it's boundaries in their widefl 



* See p. i6 



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