From Buckler's-hard, nothing can unite 

 more happily than the rough uncultivated 

 grounds of Exbury on the left, with the long 

 fucceflion of Beaulieu- woods on the right. 



After this, the river foon becomes an 

 eftuary. When we entered it, as we looked 

 up the ftream, we had immediately the idea, 

 of a river winding into a woodland-country. 

 In the fame manner, when we defcended, we 

 had as quickly an idea of a river entering the 

 lea. For as the woods in the former cafe, 

 become at once the centre of the view; fo 

 does the fea, and the ifle of Wight, in the 

 latter. The laft reach therefore of the river 

 continues long to exhibit a kind of mixed 

 fcenery. Exbury-point, and the woody 

 grounds about it, flill preferve the idea of the 

 beautiful woodland-fcenes we had left : while 

 Needfore-point, tho it wind quite around, 

 and (hut us within a land-locked bay, is yet 

 fo low, that the fea, and the ifland appear 

 beyond it. 



On opening the mouth of the river, our 

 boat-men attempted to carry us acrofs the 

 mud-lands, as they had done in the morning ; 



but 



