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woody fore-grounds to the beft advantage. 

 From many parts of this interior fcenery the 

 ifle of Wight makes it's mofl pidurefque 

 appearance. In various views of it from the 

 Hamplliire coaft, we have feen it fpread in 

 too lengthened a curtain, and it's hills too 

 fmooth, and tame. Both thefe inconveniences 

 are here, in a degree, obviated. Seldom more 

 than a fmall part of the illand is feen at 

 once ; and this part being about the centre, 

 is the lofLiefl, and the rou^hefl. Here rife 

 two confiderable hills, GatefclifF, and Wraxhill -, 

 and one of them affords a circumftance of 

 great beauty. Carilbrook-caftle, feated on an 

 eminence, is feen very advantageoully againft 

 Gatefcliff, when the fun iliines either on the 

 caftie, or on the mountain ; while the other is 

 in fliadow. 



In laying out this inner circle, Mr. Mitford 

 had his greateft difficulties to contend with : 

 for here he had all his grandfather's formal 

 groves to encounter : and it was no eafy matter 

 to break their formalities ; to make judicious 

 inroads through them ; and unite them in 

 one plan. He often lamented — what other 

 improvers have lamented before him — the 

 injudicious fufferance of the growth of trees. 



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