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open to the weft, where the corner of a heath 

 finks gently into it ; but lliehered on the eaft 

 by a beechen grove, and on every other fide 

 by trees, forming an irregular Ikreen around it -, 

 among which are feveral winding avenues of 



greenfward. It is the very place, where a 



perfon heated with toil, might be allured to 

 ftop for a moment's repofe. But the chief 

 circumftance of evidence is, that as the place 

 is open only to the weft, where the heath 

 was never probably covered with wood, the 

 king could there only have been incommoded 

 by an evening-fun. 



Having taken a view of this fcene, which 

 in itfelf, unconnecfted with the hiftory it 

 records, is a pleafing one, we afcended again 

 into the great road, and purfued the heath, 



over which it led. It is a wild expanfe, 



unadorned with wood ; but bounded on every 

 fide, by very extenfive diftances. In front 

 you difcover the high grounds of the ifle of 

 Purbeck. On the left, you have a large 

 range over the iile of Wight. In the retro- 

 fpect you over-look the bay, and town of 

 Southampton -, and on the right is fpread 



before 



