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we have mounted the fummit of the hill, 

 the clofe views in the defcent on the other 

 fide, are very beautiful, confifting of little 

 woody recelles, open groves, or open glades, 

 varied as they were before, in different 

 forms. 



As we approach Lyndhurft, we pafs Foxlees 

 on the left. The fituation here is juft the 

 reverfe of Mr. Morant's. The one Hands 

 high, and commands the foreft at a diftance ; 

 the other, in a bottom, is furrounded by it's 

 woods. Both modes of fituation have their 

 beauty ; but an extenfive foreft view before the 

 houfe, with a few noble trees on the fore- 

 ground, is not only, at all times, a better pic- 

 ture , but is alfo more agreeably varied by the 

 occafional incidents of light and weather, of 

 which the other is not capable. 



In a part of the fkreen, which divides 

 thefe grounds from the road, we have an 

 opportunity of remarking the difagreeable effedt 

 of trees planted alternately. The eye is 

 difgufted with looking firft on a fir, fecondly 

 on an elm ; thirdly on a fir ; fourthly on an 

 elm again, and fo on. And yet this tire- 



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