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The town of Chrift-church, which takes it's 

 name from the church, is a place of great 

 antiquity. Here we find the ruins of a caftle, 

 which was intended formerly to fecure the 

 mouth of the Avon. This river is joined by 

 the Stour below the town ; where uniting in 

 a full ftream, they wind together through a 

 bleak coaft, forming it firft into large flat 

 meadows, and then opening into a bay before 

 they enter the fea. The view, which is not 

 very interefting, is bounded by a ridge of 

 high lands, called Chrift-church head, on the 

 right ; and on the left, by the weftern end 

 of the ifle of Wight, which in this part, 

 makes a remarkable appearance. It is feen 

 nearly in front ; and it's broken cliffs, when 

 the noon-tide fun in winter jfhines flrongly 

 upon them, appear like the ends of two frac- 

 tured walls, divided by a dark cavity. 



From Chrift-church to Lymington the 

 country continues flat, cultivated, and inclofed. 

 Scarce an objed: prefents itfelf. A little to 

 the right of the road, you fee a large houfe 

 built by lord Bute for the benefit of the fea air. 

 It ftands on a cliff diredly oppofite to Cher- 

 bourg, from which it is about fixty miles 

 diftant ; and it overlooks the fea, juft in that 



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