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the Needles, and Huril-caftle mull: be ob- 

 tained by leaving the road, and getting a little 

 nearer the coaft. Other intereftin^ views mav 

 be fought in the fame way, both on the 

 right, and the left of the road. At Milford, 

 and in the neighbourhood of it, are feveral 

 good views of thefe great ob)ed:s. At Rook- 

 cliiF, a little nearer the fea, the views are 

 again varied ; the ifland, and coaft forming 

 the appearance of an ample bay. On the 

 other lide of the road, about Pennington- 

 common, from Mr. Dixon's, and other 

 places, the diftant views make a new ap- 

 pearance, juft fkirting the horizon, over a 

 flat country, with a long fweep of the ifland, 

 and intervenino- channel. But the moft beau- 



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tiful view, on this fide, is from IVIr. Etty's 

 drawing-room at Priefl:lands. The near 

 grounds flnk in the middle into a fort of 

 wide valley, which is occupied in the dillance 

 by the ifland, and the channel : and as they 

 retire from the eye on the left, and wind 

 rather towards it on the right, the whole 

 has the appearance of a grand lake ; bounded 

 at this end, but running far into difl:ance 

 at the other. As the houfe fl:ands in the 

 centre of this view, it appears as if the 



houfe. 



