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before you a vaft ftretch of diltant country, 

 bounded by the hills of Wiltjfhire, and Dor- 

 fetfliire. This laft is the only part of thefe 

 diftances, which hath any pidturefque value. 

 About the eighty-fixth ftone, the parts of it 

 are beft difpofed ; but it is the richeft about 

 the eighty-ninth, where it is feen over a woody 

 bottom, which makes a middle ground. 



In this part of the foreft the paling of one 

 of the new inclofures to fecure timber, whicli 

 ran a confiderable way in a flraight line, 

 deformed our views. Sometimes indeed the 

 paling of parks, and forefts is pidurefque, 

 where it runs winding round a hill, and appears 

 again perhaps in fome oppolite dired;ion j but 

 in general, it is an unpleafmg objedt ; and 

 what in adorned fcenery we Ihould wifli to 

 hide. Indeed all divifions of property are great 

 nuifances to the pidiurefque eye, which loves 

 to range at large ; and it adds peculiar beauty 

 to the foreft, that in general the grand lines 

 of nature, and various fwelling of the ground, 

 are unbroken by thefe intrufions, and have their 

 full play, and undulation. In remote diftances, 

 hedge-rows, pales, and other objects, oifen- 



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