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defcends to the river, which takes it's name 

 from the town. The brow, and gentle 

 deicent of this falling ground the town oc- 

 cupies j forming one handfome ftreet, which 

 overlooks the rifmg fhores on the oppofite 

 fide of the river. It is a neat, well-built 

 town, and pleafantly feated. The houfes, 

 efpecially on the fide of the ftreet next the 

 coaft, have views from the windows, and 

 gardens, of the ifle of Wight, and the fea. 



Acrofs the eftuary, formed at the mouth 

 of Lymington-river, a dam with flood-gates 

 is thrown. The intention was, to exclude 

 the fait- water from the meadows above > 

 which, it was hoped, might have become good 

 pafturage : but the purpofe is not anfwered. 

 A great beauty however arifes from the influx 

 of the tide, which forms a handfome piece 

 of water above the dam, with many reaches 

 and winding fhores. We have already ob- 

 ferved the beauty of this eftuary ; when feen 

 from the higher grounds, as it enters the 

 fea*. The fcenes are equally interefting, 

 which it affords, when the eye purfues it up 



* See page 61. 



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