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patched here and there with heath ; and 

 is efleemed one of the beft feeding grounds, 

 both for deer, and cattle in the foreft. 



Ober-green was the laft of thofe beautiful 

 lawns, with which our ride through this 

 part of the foreft was inlivened ; and I 

 imagine few counties in England could fur- 

 niih fo many plealing woodland-fcenes in fo 

 fmall a compafs. He who delights in fuch 

 fcenery will find it in much greater perfedtion 

 in the wildnefs of a foreft, than among the 

 moft admired improvements of art. He will 

 find it grander, more varied, and every where 

 more replete with thofe wild, inchanting 

 pafTages, which the hand of art cannot give. 

 What are the lawns of Hagley*, or any other 

 place celebrated for this fpecies of artificial . 

 landfcape, but paltry imitations of the genuine 

 works of nature ? 



Hinchelfey-wood-f-, which we left on the 

 right in the morning, now again fkirted our 

 right, as we traverfed Ober-green. Here it was 

 as great an ornament, as it was on the other 

 fide, at Longjlade-bottom. That vaft bog. 



* The late lord Lyttlcton's in Worcefterfliire, now lord 

 Weftcote's. 



f See page 104. 



which 



