our road threading the clumps, and fmgle trees, 

 which ftood forward, carried us among them. 

 The richnefs, and clofenefs of the foreft- 

 fcenery on one fide, contrafted with the 

 plainnefs, and fimplicity of the heath on the 

 other, fkirted with diftant wood, and feen 

 through the openings of the clumps, were 

 pleafmg. 



From this heath we were received by lanes 

 but fuch lanes, as a foreft only can produce ; 

 in which oak, and afh, full-grown, and plant- 

 ed irregularly by the hand of nature, ftood 

 out in various groups, and added a new fore- 

 ground, every ftep we took, to a variety of 

 little openings into woods, copfes, and pleafmg 

 recefles. 



While we were admiring thefe clofe land- 

 fcapes, the woods, on the right fuddenly 

 giving way, we were prefented with a view of 

 the river Buckler's-hard beyond it the men 

 of war building in the dock there and the 

 woody grounds which rife in the offfkip. 

 This exhibition was rather formally introduced 

 like a vifta. The woods feemed to have been 

 opened on purpofe : but formality is a fault, 

 which we feldom find in nature; and which 

 in the fcene before us, fhe will probably cor- 



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