pal honours, and confifls chiefly of beech, 

 with a few decrepid oaks flraggling among 

 them. Every where we faw noble Jiools, 

 as they call the flumps of fuch trees as have 

 been cut down; and we could form an 

 idea of their grandeur, by the refpe6lful 

 fpace they have formerly occupied. None of 

 the trees in the neighbourhood feem to have 

 approached within a confiderable diflance of 

 them. 



In this wood, which makes a part of 

 Denny-walk, the lodge belonging to it, is 

 feated. Here we left the Lyndhurfl road, 

 which we had thus far purfued from Beaulieu ; 

 and turning to the left, directed our courfe 

 to Whitley-ridge-lodge. In the neighbourhood 

 of this place we found fome beautiful fcenes. 



One of them has peculiar merit. It is a 



fmall forefl-lawn, containing about feven or 

 eight acres fomewhat circular, and fkirted 

 with oaks, thickets, and open groves ; but 

 they are difpofed in fo happy a manner, and 

 fo much broken by clumps flanding out from 

 the other woods, that all the regularity of 

 it's form is removed. This lawn is the 

 favourite haunt of deer in fummer-evenincrs ; 



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and their conflant feeding upon it, has given 



the 



