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SECT. VII. 



Remarks on the middle parts of New-foreft, between 

 the rivers of Lymington, and BeauHeu. 



DIRECTING our courfe firll; towards 

 Beaulieu, we paffed the plantations of 

 fir Harry Burrard at Walhampton, which 

 extend round his houfe, and are compofed 

 chiefly of fir. His gardens command ex- 

 tenfive views of the ifle of Wight, and the 

 intervening channel : but they are views, 

 which may rather be called amufmgy than 

 piBurefque. They are too extenflve for the 

 ufe of the pencil. The diftant coafl exhibits 

 too long a curtain ; the hills are too fmooth -, 

 and the water-line is too parallel with the 

 coafl of Hampfliire. The only way to obtain 

 that fpecies of beauty, which we call pic^ 



K 2 turcfquCi 



