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lightnefs fecures him in a place, where a larger 

 horfe, under the weight of a rider, would 

 flounder. If the traveller therefore meet with 

 a horfe-path, pointing into a fwamp, even 

 tho he fhould obferve it to emerge on the 

 other fide, he had better relinquifh it. The 

 only track he can prudently follow, is that 

 of wheels. 



Having thus prefented the reader with a 

 general view of New-foreft, I fhall now en- 

 deavour to give him a more intimate acquain- 

 tance with it, and fhall lead him into fome 



of it's mofl beautiful fcenes. Nor was the 



beauty of the foreft a matter of no concern, 

 even at a time, when we might have fuppofed 

 the pleafures of the chace ingrofled men's whole 

 attention. " There are three fpecial caufes, 

 fays Manwood, why the foreft- laws have fo 

 carefully provided for the prefervation of the 

 'uert of the foreft. The firft is for the fake 

 of cover for the deer. The fecond for the 

 fake of the acorns, maft, &c. which feed 

 them. The third is propter decorum j for the 

 comelinefs and beauty of the fame in a foreft. 

 For the very fight, and beholding of the 



goodly 



