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extent, as advancing to the bay of Southamp-* 

 ton on the eaft; to the river Avon on the 



weft ; and to the fea on the fouth. Within 



equal limits perhaps few parts of England 

 afford a greater variety of beautiful landfcape. 

 It's woody fcenes, it's extended lawns, and 

 vaft fweeps of wild country, unlimited by 

 artificial boundaries, together with it's river- 

 views, and diftant coafts ; are all in a great 

 degree magnificent. It muft ftill however be 

 remembered, that it's chief characteriftic, and 

 what it refts on for diftmclion, is Tiotfublimity, 

 butjyfoan beauty. 



But before I enter on a particular defcription 

 of the fcenery of New-foreft, in a pic~fcurefque 

 light, it may not be improper to give the 

 reader a kind of table of contents of what 

 he is to expecl. 



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