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bay, on the oppofite fide, the hazy towers of 

 Southampton appear mooting into the water j 

 and beyond all, the opening of the river 

 Itching, and the faint flreaks of a diftant 

 country, ftretching away, till it is loft in 



the high grounds beyond Winchefter. In 



another direction, the eye is carried down 

 the bay, along the wooded mores of Netley- 

 abbey j and over a remote diftance, till the 

 view is clofed by the rifing grounds of Portf- 

 down. 



The laft tree I mail introduce from New- 

 foreft, is remarkable for exhibiting a very 

 uncommon inftance of the power of vegeta- 

 tion. About ten years ago, among the ruins 

 of the wall, which formerly furrounded the 

 abbey of Beaulieu, flood an oak, contiguous 

 to a part of the wall -, and extended one of 

 it's principal limbs in clofe contact, along the 

 fummit of it. This limb, at the diftance of 

 about three yards from the parent-tree, formed 

 a fecond ftem upon the wall, by mooting a 

 root through fome Mure, in which it pro- 

 bably found a depofit of foil. This root, 

 running along the bottom of the wall, and 



finding 



