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diftant objects. The parts are here, and there, 

 picturefque : but the whole, tho amufing, is 

 too vaft for the pencil. 



Hurft-caftle lying level with the beech, 

 fully commands the channel, which feparates 

 the coaft of Hampfhire from the ifle of 

 Wight. It confifts of a round tower forti- 

 fied by femi-circular baftions ; and was among 

 the ftrongeft of thofe caftles, which were 

 built by Henry VIII. But fince Portf- 

 mouth hath been a place of confequence, 

 and always guarded by a fleet, this caftle, 

 as well as others of the fame intention, are 

 now neglected. In this caftle the apart- 

 ments are ftill {hewn, where Charles I. 

 was confined, when he was carried from the 

 ifle of Wight; and very miferable they are. 



On the batteries we faw an inftance of 



Hogarth's humour, when he was painter to 

 the ordinance. The carriages have all crowns 

 painted on them, with the king's initials. 

 Below one of them, painted exactly in the 

 vulgar ftile of the reft, Hogarth has formally 



put the initials of his name. The form 



of this caftle at a diftance, fet off by the 

 rocks of the ifland as a back ground, is not 

 unpifturcfque. 



The 



