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The next reach lofes in beauty. A long 

 Hretch of low land fweeping acrofs the river, 

 like a mole, which was lefs obfervable before, 

 now greatly interrupts the beauty of the view. 



The fucceeding bay, where the woods of 

 Exbury open in front, is very grand, and 

 extenfive. 



From Buckler's-hard, nothing can unite 

 more happily than the rough uncultivated 

 grounds of Exbury on the left, with the long 

 fucceffion of Beaulieu- woods on the right. 



After this, the river foon becomes an 

 eftuary. When we entered it, as we looked 

 up the ftream, we had immediately the idea 

 of a river winding into a woodland-country. 

 In the fame manner, when We defcended, we 

 had as quickly an idea of a river entering the 

 fea. For as the woods in the former cafe, 

 become at once the centre of the view; fo 

 does the fea, and the ille of Wight, in the 

 latter. The lall: reach therefore of the river 

 continues long to exhibit a kind of mixed 

 fcenery. Exbury-point, and the woody 

 grounds about it, ftill preferve the idea of the 

 beautiful woodland-fcenes we had left : while 

 Needfore-point, tho it wind quite around, 

 and fhut us within a land-locked bay, is yet 



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