The great number of workmen, whom this 

 bufmefs brought together, have given birth by 

 degrees to a populous village. 



From this bufy fcene, we purfued our way 

 to Beaulieu-abbey ; which is about two miles 

 beyond it. The road is ftill clofe, and beau- 

 tifully wooded. Within half a mile of it you 

 look down from the higher grounds, into the 

 circular valley, in which the ruins of the 

 abbey fland. 



The valley itfelf is extenfive ; and confifls of 

 great variety of ground ; and the whole fcene, 

 but efpecially the hills, which furround it, are 

 woody. Through the middle of it runs the 

 river, which, about two miles above Beaulieu, 

 is a mere foreft-ftream, and has no confe- 

 quence, but what it receives from the beautiful 



The Illuftrious of feventy-four guns. The Vigilant Aga- 

 memnon Indefatigable and Europe; all of fixty-four. The 

 Greenwich, and Hannibal of fifty. The Woolwich Romulus 

 Gladiator and Sheernefs of forty-four. The Beaulieu of 

 thirty-fix. The Thames Thetis and Heroine of thirty-two. 

 The Coventry Levant Triton Greyhound Sibyl and 

 Brilliant of twenty-eight. The Surprife Fowey and Mer- 

 maid of twenty-four. The Kennington of twenty and the 

 Scorpion floop. 



fcenes, 



