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the fineft texture to it's turf. It is rough 

 enough to ihew it's alliance with the foreft ; 

 but, like fome of nature's faireft forms, it 

 has fo polifhed an appearance, that with the 

 fmalleft improvement it might accompany the 

 moil cultivated fcene. 



From hence we continued our rout through 

 woods, like thofe of Denny, as far as Lady- 

 crofs-lodge. Thefe ravaged parts of the foreft, 

 tho they ftill afford many pleafing fcenes, 

 yet deprived of their nobleft trees, are de- 

 prived alfo of their principal beauty. Tho 

 inferior wood, as we had frequent opportunity 

 to obferve, might produce diftant fcenery, 

 yet when we enter the internal parts of a 

 foreft, we wifh for objects of grandeur. In 

 foreft-glades efpecially, where the fcenes are 

 fmall, large trees on the foreground are almoft 

 necefTary, 



From the woods of Lady-crofs, we entered 

 the weftern fide of that vaft heath, which 

 occupies all the middle ground between the 



rivers of Lymington, and Beaulieu. It is 



L 3 not 



