( '64 ) 



At Buckler's-hard the reach of the rivev 

 is veiy interefting. On the right are the 

 woods of Beaulieu, winding round, with great 

 richnefs, into a front-fkreen. On the left, 

 where wood before abounded, the grounds 

 now run more into pafturage ; tho far from 

 being deflitute of furniture. One decoration 

 they have, which is not unpleafmg. Where 

 the meadows fall down to the water,, they 

 are fecured from the tide, by low, flaked 

 banks, which follow the winding banks of 

 the river. If they had run in a flraight line, 

 they would have been a great deformity ; 

 but as they wind, inftead of being ofFenfive 

 objects, they give a fort of rough, irregular 

 termination to the line of the river. If we 

 painted the fcene, we fhould have no objection 

 to introduce them ; both for the reafon given, 

 and alfo for the fake of the reflections they 



form in the water. They have fometimes 



alfo the beauty of contrail, when the other 

 parts of the bank are without them. 



From Buckler's-hard the river takes- a 

 iweep to the right. The woods likewife, on 

 that fide, follow it's courfe ; and fpreading 

 in great luxuriance, to the water's edge, throw 

 a gloom over half the river. A noble bay 

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