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Acrofs the eftuary, formed at the mouth 

 of Lymington-river, a dam with flood-gates 

 is thrown. The intention was, to exclude 

 the fait- water from the meadows above j 

 which, it is hoped, might have become good 

 pafturage: but the purpofe is not anfwered. 

 A great beauty however arifes from the influx 

 of the tide, which forms a handfome piece 

 of water above the dam, with many reaches 

 and winding fhores. We have already ob- 

 ferved the beauty of this eftuary ; when feen 

 from the higher grounds, as it enters the 

 fea*. The fcenes are equally interefling, 

 which it affords, when the eye purfues it up 

 the ilream, into it's recefl^es in the foreft. 

 One of the befl of them opens from the ftable- 

 yard of the angel-inn in Lymington, and the 

 parts adjacent. 



The channel between the ifle of Wight, and 

 the fhores of Hampfhire, is fufiiciently deep, at 

 all times, for (hips of force, and burden, which 

 often pafs through the Needles^ as it is phrafed : 

 but if the weather be rough, it is thought 



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