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land-locked with wood, begins foon to open. 



As this fcene removes, the v/oods take 



a different form, fliaping themfelves into re- 

 moved fkreens, following each other. 



Another reach brought us within fight of 

 Beaulieu — the bridge and the abbey form- 

 ing the centre of the view : the river, in 

 the mean time, lofmg very little of it's gran- 

 deur, from the firft reach to the laft. 



Thus we finifhed our voyage up the river 

 of Beaulieu -, which in a courfe of near three 

 leagues from the fea, forms about five, or 



fix grand fweeps. The fimple idea it pre- 



fents throughout, is that of a winding tide- 

 river flowing up a woody y uninhabited country ; 

 which is a fingular character for an Englifh 

 river to affume. Here and there we fee a 

 houfe, and a few fpots of cultivation ; but fo 

 little, that it makes no imprefiion on the gene- 

 ral charader of the fcene. The pi<flurefque 

 eye, ufed to landfcape, eafily carries on the 



general idea undifburbed. The bufy fcene 



of fhip-building at Buckler's-hard, rather aided, 



than injured the idea : for as no one would 



M 3 expedl 



