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Tho Lyndhurfl is but a fmall place, it 

 may be called the capital of the foreft. Here 

 the foreft-courts are held; and here ftands 

 the principal lodge ; which is known by the 

 name of the Kings-bouse, and is the residence 

 of the lord- warden ; tho it is but an ordinary 

 building. An alignment of timber was lately 

 made to put it, and fome other lodges, into 

 better repair. 



Behind the houfe lies a pleafant (loping 

 field, containing about fix or feven acres, 

 which is planted round with fhrubs, circled 

 by a gravel-walk ; and fecured from cattle 

 by a railed fence. I mention this mode of 

 inclofure only becaufe I have often thought 

 it a very good one, efpecially if a field, 

 like this, confift of doping ground : for the 

 rails, which are in many parts hid, appear 

 winding in others ; and the eye is feldom 

 offended fometimes pleafed, with purfuing 

 them, and taking them up again, after they 

 have for a while difappeared. There is fome- 

 thing alfo not unpleafing in the perfpeclive 

 of winding rails. I do not however men- 

 tion a fence of this kind as fuitable to a 

 regal manfion ; or fo proper in many cafes as 



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