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SECT. VIII. 



A voyage up Beaulieu-river. 



THE river Avon is the boundary of the 

 foreft on the weft ; and the bay of 

 Southampton on the eaft. Neither of thefe 

 rivers therefore properly belongs to the foreft. 

 The only rivers, v^^hich may juftly be called 

 foreft-rivers, are thofe of Lymington, and 

 Beaulieu. The former of thefe we have 

 already examined in various parts 3 the latter 

 only about the abbey of Beaulieu. We deter- 

 mined therefore to inveftigate the whole in a 

 voyage. 



We took boat in Lymington-river ; which 

 at low-water winds beautifully, before it enter 

 the fea*. It's banks indeed are mud, but of 

 the be ft fpecies ; for they are covered, like 

 the other mud lands of this country, with 



* See page 96. 



fea-grafs. 



