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nobleft of all foreft fcenes. The ground it 

 flood on is beautifully varied ; and the gran- 

 deur, and number of it's oaks were ad- 

 mired by all, who faw them. But it's 

 glories are now over. During the unremitted 

 courfe of thirty years it continued to add 

 ftrength to the fleets of Britain, In this fer- 

 vice, it was at length exhaufted -, and it con- 

 tains little more, at prefent, than fhrubs, and 

 under- wood, and blafted trees. In the midfl 

 of this wood rifes a hill called Oak-broWy 

 from the flately oaks which once adorned it's 

 fummit, and fhaggy fides. But it fell a facrifice 

 to the convenience of a potent neighbour. 

 Through the influence of lord Delawar, 

 whofe views it obftrucfted, it's oaks were 

 felled, long before any inroads had been 

 made among the woods, which incircled 

 them. And if the defl:rud:ion of thefe oaks 

 had been partial ; if a few, here and there, 

 had been left as a fore-ground, the injury, 

 on the fpot at leaft, might the lefs be re- 

 gretted. For the views which are thus opened 

 from it's brow, make great amends for the lofs 

 of it's woods. They confift chiefly of two 

 or three beautiful lawns, fkreened with foreft- 

 fcenery. Yew-tree-bottom denotes one of thefe 



fcenes ; 



