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leave the fhore, and wind into a woodland 

 country ; which within a few hundred yards 

 from the fea, afTumes fo new a character, that 

 we might eafily conceive it to be as many 

 miles from it. In thefe woody fcenes, inter- 

 mixed with open grounds, we continue about 

 four miles ; till winding round, we return 

 to thofe rifing grounds on the wxft, from 

 whence we iirft had the views of the river. 



This boundary-circuit carries us through 

 the fpace of about eight miles. Mr. Mitford 

 has done little, befides marking it out by cut- 

 ting through the woods, as he fhould wifh 

 to lead it. To compleat his plan would be 

 very expenfive ; tho an expence equal to the 

 natural advantages of the fcene in good hands, 

 would make this one of the moft varied, and 

 pi6turefque wood-land-rides perhaps in Eng- 

 land. 



Within this boundary-circuit, Mr. Mitford 

 has marked out an interior one, circling a mile 

 round his houfe. As the objed of the larger 

 circuit, is to fhew, as much as poflible, the 

 extent of his views ; the obje(^ of this in- 

 terior one is to break thofe diftant views 

 into parts — to form thofe parts into the moft 

 beautiful fcenes ; and to exhibit them with 



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