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a crefcent, near two miles in circuit. It was 

 a beautiful fcene, hung with wood on every 

 fide. 



Near this place ftands Rhinfield-lodge ; 

 the fituation of which is perhaps as plealing, 

 tho not fo grand, as that of Boldre-wood. 

 It ftands on a fpreading hill, incircled with 

 groves of oak, among which indeed greater 

 deftrudiion hath been made, for the fake of 

 the view, than feems to have been neceffary. 

 As the ground falls on every lide from the 

 hill, on which the houfe ftands, fo on every 

 fide, it foon begins to rife again, tho very 

 gently, expanding by degrees into a vaft 

 circle of foreft-fcenery of every fpecies— • 

 extenlive woods^ — fkirted heaths — intermixtures 

 of wood and lawn — and all this landfcape 

 exhibited tlirough the various removes of 

 diftance. When we were fated with thefe 

 grand fcenes, we had them afterwards pre- 

 fented more picfturefquely in parts, as we 

 defcended the hill, from the lodge. In this 

 defcent we caught them every where to 

 great advantage, through the boles, and 

 branches of the ftately oaks, which furrounded 

 us. As the ground, which immediately in- 

 circled this hill at the bottom, is fwampy, 



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