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right is Cuffnel's, the feat of Mr. Rofe ; and 

 flill more to the right, are the woods of 

 Lyndhurft. 



At the entrance of Brokenhurft, a httle to 

 the right, Mr. Morant's houfe commands a 

 very grand, and pidlurefque foreft-view. Both 

 the fore-ground, and the diftance, are com- 

 plete. 



The former is an elevated park-fcene, 

 confifting of great variety of ground ; well- 

 planted ; and defcending gently into the vale 

 below. Among the trees, which adorn it, 

 are a few of the oldeft, and moft venerable 

 oaks of the foreft. I doubt not but they 

 chronicle on their furrowed trunks ages before 

 the conqueft. 



From this grand fore-ground is prefented 

 an extenfive foreft-view. It coniifts of a wide 

 range of flat pafturage (for fuch the bofom 

 of the vale appears) garnifhed with tufted 

 clumps and woody promontories fbooting into 

 it ; and contrafted by immenfe woods, which 

 occupy all the rifmg grounds above it, and 

 circle the horizon. The contraft between the 

 open, and woody parts of the diftance, and the 



grandeur 



