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From Chrift-church to Lymington the 

 country continues flat, cultivated, and inclofed. 

 Scarce an object prefents itfelf. A little to 

 the right of the road, you fee a large houfe 

 built by lord Bute for the benefit of the fea air. 

 It frauds' on a cliff directly oppofite to Cher- 

 bourg, from which it is about fixty miles 

 diftant; and it overlooks the fea, juft in that 

 point, where Chrift-church head, and the 

 weftern promontory of the ifle of Wight, form 

 an immenfe colonade before it. 



The road to the houfe runs directly to the 

 front, narrow, and contracted at the entrance, 

 but opening by degrees. The houfe firft 

 appears j then the lawn ; which, tho narrow 

 in front, extends amply on both fides, with a 

 pavilion at each extremity. Thefe pavilions 

 have a good effect from the fea, by giving 

 confequence to the houfe. From the land they 

 contribute, by marking the limits of the lawn, 

 to open the 'idea more gradually. Beyond 

 the lawn, the grand colonade juft mentioned, 

 extends j and beyond all, the expanfe of the 

 ocean. There is fomething very amufing in 

 thus contemplating an idea, which is conti- 

 nually dilating and opening itfelf from a narrow 

 tunnel into infinite fpace. If it were the 



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