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one of thofe beautiful woody- fkirted lawns, 

 of which we had feen fo many in the weftern 

 parts of the foreft -, and yet the features of 



this were different from them all. We 



flood on a rough knoll, decorated with a few 

 full-grown oaks, defcending in front into 

 a lawn, which appeared to flretch about a 

 mile in front; and a league on each fide. 

 It was fkirted in every part with woods, 

 fhooting out, and retiring in fkreens on each 

 fide ; and folding over each other. The whole 

 was a pleafing piece of forefl-perfpedlive, 

 and the lawn one of the moft pidurefque 

 compofitions we had met v/ith, in this mode 

 of landfcape. 



Soon after we left Culverly-heath, we en- 

 tered another fcene of the fame kind — larger, 

 but lefs varied. In Culverly-heath the ma- 

 terials of landfcape were brought together in 

 fo perfed; a manner, as to produce a pic- 

 ture fque whole. Here, through an awkward- 

 nefs in the compofition, there was but an 

 indifferent whole, tho many of the parts in 

 themfelves were beautiful. 



From this heath we entered a large wood, 

 called Denny. It has once been a noble 

 fcene, but it is now flripped of it's princi- 



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