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SECTION VIII. 



A voyage up Beaulieu-river. 



1 HE river Avon is the boundary of the 

 foreft on the weft ; and the bay of South- 

 ampton on the eaft. Neither of thefe rivers 

 therefore properly belongs to the foreft. The 

 only rivers, which may juftly be called foreft- 

 rivers, are thofe of Lymington, and Beaulieu. 

 The former of thefe we have already exa- 

 mined in various parts j the latter only about 

 the abbey of Beaulieu. We determined there-> 

 fore to inveftigate the whole in a voyage. 



We took boat in Lymington-river ; which 

 at low-water winds beautifully, before it enter 

 the fea*. It's banks indeed are mud, but of 

 the beft fpecies ; for they are covered, like 

 the other mud lands of this country, with 



* See page 96. 



fea-grafs, 



