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than common, and properly accompanied, 

 and balanced with fore-ground; we 'might 

 be tempted to forget it's under-fize ; and feeing 

 fo large a picture, might acknowledge fome- 

 thing like an equality with nature : we might 

 overlook the deception, and in feme degree, 

 feel thofe fublime ideas which nature itfelf 

 excites. 



Befides this grand and extenfive diftance, 



which we furveved between Bramble-hill, and 



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the ruins of Caftle-Malwood, we found many 

 views of the fame kind, as we traverfed the 

 high, and heathy grounds towards Fritham, 

 and Fording-bridge. But the hills about 

 Boldre-wood, and Lyndhurft occupying the 

 middle fpace between the northern, and fouth- 

 ern parts of the foreft, and intercepting our 

 views, as we proceed in a weftern direction, I 

 know not, whether, on the whole, the view 

 we have juft taken, is not one of the moft ex- 

 tenfive, and moft amufmg, which the whole 



foreft exhibits. 1 cannot therefore conclude 



a defcription of New-foreft more properly, than 

 with this grand exhibition, which in a manner, 

 comprehends the whole. 



As 



