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They have a lefs extenfive range to the weft ; 

 but this is compenfated by a full view up 

 Southampton-bay. And they are the more 

 picturefque, as they are taken from a lower 

 point. 



Near Fawley, which is among the larger 

 villages of the coaft, ftands Cadland, the feat 

 of Mr. Drummond ; an edifice of a very dif- 

 ferent kind from that we had juft been fur- 

 veying. Tho quite plain, it is one of the 

 moft elegant, and feems to be one of the moft 

 comfortable houfes, in the country. 



It {lands on a gentle eminence on the banks 

 of Southampton-bay, with a great variety of 

 ground playing beautifully around it ; which 

 is every where adorned, and in fome places 

 profuiely covered, with ancient wood. The 

 whole country indeed was fo well wooded, 

 that no addition of wood was any where ne- 

 cefiary ; in many parts it was redundant. 

 This abundance of old timber gives the houfe, 

 tho lately built, fo much the air and dignity 

 of an ancient manfion, that Mr. Brown, the 

 ingenious improver of it, ufed to fay, " It 

 was the oldefl new place he knew in England." 



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