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the oppolite fide, following it's courfe, on an 

 elevated bank, were as rich as a pidturefque 

 imagination could conceive them. , The fore- 

 ground indeed was not equal to a fcene, which 

 was in every other refpedt fo compleat. 



From hence we afcended a clofe lane cut 

 through Beaulieu-manor ; and inriched on both 

 fides, but efpecially on the left, with foreft- 

 fcenery. At Hilltop-gate the lane opens into 

 that extenfive heath, which occupies all the 

 middle part of the peninfula, between the river 

 of Beaulieu, and the bay of Southampton. As 

 this peninfula fhoots into length, rather than 

 breadth, the heathy grounds follow it's form; and 

 extend feveral miles in one dired:ion -, tho fel- 

 dom above two, in the other. The banks of 

 both rivers are woody ; and thefe woods ap- 

 peared, as we entered the heath, to fkirt it's ex- 

 tremities. Through thefe extremities, contain- 

 ing the mofi: beautiful parts of the country, we 

 meant to travel. At Hilltop therefore, infi:ead 

 of crofiing the heath, we turned fhort into a 

 road on the right, which led us along the ficirts 

 of the woods, under the fliade of which we 

 travelled about a mile. Sometimes thefe woods 

 fhot like promontorieg into the heath, and we 

 were obliged to ride round them -, but oftener 



our 



