woody fore-grounds to the beft advantage. 

 From many parts of this interior fcenery the 

 ifle of Wight makes it's moil pi6lurefque 

 appearance. In various views of it from the 

 Hampfhire coaft, we have feen it fpread in 

 too lengthened a curtain, and it's hills too 

 fmooth, and tame. Both thefe inconveniences 

 are here, in a degree, obviated. Seldom more 

 than a fmall part of the ifland is feen at 

 once j and this part being about the centre, 

 is the loftier!, and the rougheft. Here rile 

 two confiderable hills, Gatefclift, and Wraxhill; 

 and one of them affords a circumftance of 

 great beauty. Carifbrook-caftle, feated on an 

 eminence, is feen veiy advantageoufly againfl 

 Gatefcliff, when the fun fhines either on the 

 caflle, or on the mountain ; while the other is 

 in fhadow. 



In laying out this inner circle, Mr. Mitford 

 had his greatefl difficulties to contend with : 

 for here he had all his grandfather's formal 

 groves to encounter : and it was no eafy matter 

 to break their formalities ; to make judicious 

 inroads through them; and unite them in 

 one plan. He often lamented what other 

 improvers have lamented before him the 

 injudicious fufferance of the growth of trees. 



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