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been furveying. No fituation perhaps, on 

 the whole, could have excelled it. 



The pleafing landfcape we met with between 

 Cadland 'and Hithe, was of a fimilar kind 

 to what we had already admired great pro- 

 fufion of full-grown oak, adorning great 

 variety of playing ground. But what parti- 

 cularly recommended thefe fcenes, were feveral 

 dips, running down to Southampton-bay; 

 wooded on each fide, with a rich country 

 beyond the water. They were of the fame 

 kind, with thofe we admired between Chrift- 

 church, and Lymington* ; but much richer, 

 and more beautiful. Two of the moft finking 

 of thefe fcenes, were from Stobland-common, 

 and near Butt's-afh-farm. 



At Hithe, the whole bay of Southampton 

 opened in one view before us j but the fcene 

 it offers, is far from being piclurefque. The 

 oppofite fhore is long, and tedious; and the 

 lines of the bay run parallel : for tho in fact 

 there are two or three bold openings in it, 



* See page 8y. 



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