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the ftream, into it's recefles in the foreft. 

 One of the beft of them opens from the ftable- 

 yard of the angel-inn in Lymington, and the 

 parts adjacent. 



The channel between the ifle of Wight, and 

 the mores of Hamplhire, is fufficiently deep, at 

 all times, for mips of force, and burden, which 

 often pafs through the Needles, as it is phrafed : 

 but if the weather be rough, it is thought 

 an unfafe paffage ; and in general thefe narrow 

 feas are frequented only by fmaller veffels. The 

 port of Lymington particularly, which is 

 entered by a long, narrow, mallow river, is 

 chiefly navigated by light fkiffs, rigged in the 

 cutter-form, with a jib and boom. Thefe are, 

 of all others, the moft beautiful veflels, which 

 frequent a coaft. To make a large (hip a 

 beautiful object, fome peculiar incident is ne- 

 ceflary. She muft be fore-ihortened ; for a 

 fhip in profile is formal. Her fails alfo muft 

 in part be furled : for the fquare fail without 

 any contraft is difgufting. A degree of diftance 

 alfo is requifite, both to leffen the objecl ; and 



to foften the features of it. But the light 



ikiff, with a fmgle maft, a jib, and boom, is 



4 beautiful 



