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or other building is ereded, which breaks the 

 lines. The diftance is formed by the fea, and 

 the ifle of Wight. All together the view 

 is picture fque. It is what the painter properly 

 calls a whole. There is a fore-ground, a 

 middle-ground, and diftance — all harmonioully 



united. We have the fame view, only 



varied by pofition, from many high grounds 

 in the neighbourhood ; but I know not, that 

 it appears to fuch advantage any where as from 



this hill. At Battramfley we join the 



London-road. 



From hence to Brokenhurft, the foreft 

 exhibits little more than a wild heath, fkirted 

 here and there with diftant wood. 



Brokenhurft is a pleafant foreft- village, 

 lying in a wide vale, adorned with lawns, 

 groves, and rivulets, and furrounded on the 



higher grounds by vaft woods. From the 



church-yard an expanded view opens over the 

 whole. On the left rife the woods of Hin- 

 chelfea, and adjoining to thefe, the woods of 

 Rinefield. The centre is occupied by the high 

 grounds of Boldre wood. The little fpeck 

 juft feen among them, is a fummer-houfe, 

 built by lord Delawar to command a foreft- 

 view. The houfe among the woods on the 



right 



