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Having taken a view of this fcene, which 



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ill itfelf, unconnected with the hiflory of 

 records, is a pleafmg one, we afcended again 

 into the great road, and purfued the heath, 



over which it led. It is a wild expanfe, 



unadorned with wood ; but bounded on every 

 fide, by very extenfive diflances. In front 

 you difcover the high grounds of the ifle of 

 Purbeck. On the left, you have a large 

 range over the ifle of Wight. In the retro- 

 fpect you over-look the bay, and town of 

 Southampton; and on the right is fpread 

 before you a vaft ftretch of diftant country, 

 bounded by the hills of Wiltfhire, and Dor- 

 fertfhire. This laft is the only part of thefe 

 diftances, which hath any pi&urefque value. 

 About the eighty-fix th flone, the parts of it 

 are befl difpofed; but it is the richeft about 

 .the eighty-ninth, where it is feen over a woody 

 bottom, which makes a middle ground. 



In this part of the foreft the paling of one 

 of the new inclofures to fecure timber, which 

 ran a confiderable way in a itraight line, 



deformed 



