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fide, at Longjlade-bottom. That vaft bog, which 

 we had feen in the morning winding fo beauti- 

 fully round Hinchelfey-wood, now prefented it's 

 deceitful furface direftly in our way. An inex- 

 perienced traveller might have ventured to pafs 

 it without fcruple. But our fteps were better 

 guided. We were carefully led through the 

 fkirts of the wood to a place where a mole is 

 thrown acrofs this vaft bog, with two or three 

 wooden bridges to tranfmit the moifture. 



Having pafled this obftruftion, we rofe 

 Blackamfley-hill, from whence, as in a table of 

 contents, we had a view of all the country, 

 the woods, and the lawns we had pafTed, ex- 

 tending at leaft nine, or ten miles in length. 



From Blackamfley-hill, we came to Set- 

 ley-wood, near which we met again the 

 great road, we had left in the morning. But 

 inftead of continuing it, we crofled it at 

 a gate oppofite to a gravel-pit, as we leave 

 Brokenhurft j and entered a wild heath called 

 Burnt-hill, where fome beautiful woody fcenes 



immediately opened. On the left along 



the declivities, hung inclofures of cultivated 

 meadow-land, and likewife of rough grounds, 

 both equally adorned with wood 5 and as 

 thefe two fpecies of landfcape were here con- 

 tiguous, 



