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thd leap, where they ftill remain. The fpace 

 between them is fomewhat more than eighteen 

 yards. 



About half a mile on the right, as we 

 leave Hound's-down, ftands Ironhill lodge. 

 It occupies a knoll in the middle of a kind of 

 natural, irregular vifta. In front the ground 

 continues rifing gently about two miles to 

 Lyndhurft. The back-front overlooks a wild, 

 woody fcene, into which the vifta impercep- 

 tibly blends. 



From Hound's-down we returned to Beau- 

 lieu, along the weftern fide of that extenfive 

 heath, which, as I obferved *, occupies the 

 middle diftrift between the river of Beaulieu, 

 and the bay of Southampton. In this part 

 it confifts of great variety of ground, and is 

 adorned with little patches of wood fcattered 

 about it j and as it is, in general, the highefl 

 ground in it's neighbourhood, it is not, like 



* See page 178. 



