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pal honours, and confifts chiefly of beech, 

 with a few decrepid oaks ftraggling among 

 them. Every where we faw noble Jiools, 

 as they call the ftumps of fuch trees as have 

 been cut down ; and we could form an 

 idea of their grandeur, by the refped:ful 

 fpace they have formerly occupied. None of 

 the trees in the neio^hbourhood feem to have 

 approached within a confiderable diftance of 

 them. 



In this wood, which makes a part of 

 Denny-walk, the lodge belonging to it, is 

 feated. Here we left the Lyndhurft road, 

 which we had thus far purfued from Beaulieu ; 

 and turning to the left, direcfled our courfe 

 to Whitley-ridge-lodge. In the neighbourhood 

 of this place we found fome beautiful fcenes. 



One of them has peculiar merit. It is a 



fmall foreft-lawn, containing about feven or 

 eight acres fomewhat circular, and Ikirted 

 with oaks, thickets, and open groves ; but 

 they are difpofed in fo happy a manner, and 

 fo much broken by clumps {landing out from 

 the other woods, that all the regularity of 

 it's form is removed. This lawn is the 

 favourite haunt of deer in fummer-evenings ; 

 and their conftant feeding upon it, has given 



the 



