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feen alfo veiy advantageoufly through other 

 openings among the trees of the fore-ground. 



After examining this grand difplay of foreft- 

 fcenery, we took a view of a humbler, but very 

 beautiful fcene in the improvements, which 

 Mr. Morant lately made at the bottom of his 

 park in Boldre-water valley. Here, the river, 

 which at Lymington mixes with the tide, is 

 yet a foreft-ftream, wandering obfcurely among 

 woods, and meadows, and often hid beneath 

 its banks. By the means of different heads, it's 

 confequence, through the fpace of two or three 

 miles, is confiderably raifed j and it's rough- 

 nefs being in part (judicioufly, confidering it's 

 fituation,) pared away, it takes a character very 

 much it's own a character of high paftoral 

 beauty, blended with a large proportion of 

 fylvan grandeur. 



As you leave the village of Brokenhurft, 

 the woods receive you in a noble riling vifta, 

 -in which form the road is cut through the 

 forefl. This villa is exceedingly grand. A 

 winding road through a wood, has undoubtedly 

 more beauty than a vifta; and in a fmaller 

 fcene we always wifh to find it; and even 



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