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which we had feen in the morning winding 

 fo beautifully round Hinchelfey-wood, now 

 prefented it's deceitful furface diredlly in our 

 way. An inexperienced traveller might have 

 ventured to pafs it without fcruple. But 

 our fteps were better guided. We were care- 

 fully led through the fkirts of the wood to 

 a place where a mole is thrown acrofs this 

 vaft bog, with two or three wooden bridges 

 to tranfmit the moifture. 



Having pafled this obftrudlion, we rofe 

 Blackamfley-hill, from whence, as in a table 

 of contents, we had a view of all the country, 

 the woods, and the lawns we had pafled, 

 extending at leaft nine, or ten miles in length. 



From Blackamfley-hill, we came to Set- 

 ley-wood, near which we met again the 

 great road, we had left in the morning. But 

 infl:ead of continuing it, we crofl^ed it at 

 a gate oppoflte to a gravel-pit, as we leave 

 Brokenhurfl; ; and entered a wild heath called 

 Burnt-hill, where fome beautiful woody fcenes 



immediately opened. On the left along 



the declivities, hung inclofures of cultivated 

 meadow-land, and likewife of rough grounds, 

 both equally adorned with wood -, and as 

 thefe two fpecies of landfcape were here con- 

 tiguous, 



