SECTION VII. 



Remarks on the middle parts of New-foreft, between the 

 rivers of Lymington, and Beaulieu. 



our courfe firft towards Beaulieu, 

 we pafTed the plantations of fir Harry Burrard 

 at Walhampton, which extend round his houfe, 

 and are compofed chiefly of fir. His gardens 

 command extenfive views of the ifle of Wight, 

 and the intervening channel : but they are 

 views, which may rather be called amujlng^ 

 than piflurefque. They are too extenfive for 

 the ufe of .the pencil. The diftant coaft ex- 

 hibits too long a curtain ; the hills are too 

 fmooth j and the water-line is too parallel with 

 the coaft of Hampshire. The only way to 

 obtain that fpecies of beauty, which we call 

 pifturcfque, from fo lengthened a view of diftant 



K 2 coaft, 



