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turefque horror, wood is by no means a neceiTary 

 appendage. It is rather indeed an improper 

 one. Flourifhing wood at leaft is out of 

 place : the fcene might perhaps admit, here 

 and there, a fcathed, and ragged pine. 



Beyond Beaulieu our boat could not pafs. 

 Thus far only the tide flows with any force. 

 At Beaulieu therefore we waited till the tide 

 turned, when we again embarked. 



The views in afcending, and defcending a 

 river, vary confiderably through it's feveral 

 reaches. Yet the difference, tho obfervable 

 enough, cannot eafily be defcribed. Language 

 wants colours to paint fuch nice diftindtions. 

 We fhall therefore fall down the river with a 

 quicker fail, than we afcended. And yet we 

 muft not leave it's retrofped:-views entirely 

 unobferved. 



The bay formed by the circling woods in 

 the fecond reach as we defcend, is very beau- 

 tiful. I know not whether it's form is not 

 more pleafmg, than we thought it in the 

 morning. 



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