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The great number of workmen, whom this 

 bufinefs brought together, have given birth by 

 degrees to a populous village. 



From this bufy fcene, we purfued our way 

 to Beaulieu-abbey ; which is about two miles 

 beyond it. The road is ftill clofe, and beau- 

 tifully wooded. Within half a mile of it you 

 look down from the higher grounds, into the 

 circular valley, in which the ruins of the 

 abbey ftand. 



The valley itfelf is extenfive; and confifts of 

 great variety of ground ; and the whole fcene, 

 but efpecially the hills, which furround it, arc 

 woody. Through the middle of it runs the 

 river, which, about two miles above Beaulieu, 

 is a mere foreft-ftream, and has no confe- 

 quence, but what it receives from the beautiful 



The Illuftrious of feventy-four guns. The Vigilant — Aga- 

 memnon — Indefatigable — and Europe; all of fixty-four. The 

 Greenwich, and Hannibal of fifty. The Woolwich — Romulus 

 — Gladiator — and Sheernefs of forty-fuur. The Beaulieu of thirty- 

 fix. The Thames — Thetis — and Heroine of thirty-two. The 

 Coventr) — Levant — Triton — Greyhound — Sibyl — and Brilliant 

 of twenty-eight. The Surprife — Fowey — and Mermaid of 

 twenty-four. The Kennington of twenty — and the Scorpion 

 floop. 



fcenes. 



