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point is the termination, belongs to the 

 manor of Beaulieu. It contains fome good 

 land ; confifting chiefly of paflurage ; and 

 the whole of it is let out in a fingle 

 farm. 



At Leap we met the fea, where the coaft 

 of the ifle of Wight makes nearly the fame un- 

 pi(5turefque appearance, which it does from the 

 other fhores of the foreft. It extends into 

 length, and exhibits neither grandeur, nor 

 variety. When it is feen, as we faw it from 

 Mr. Mitford's, broken into parts, as it fhould 

 always be, when feen to pi^turefque advan- 

 tage*, it afforded feveral beautiful diftances. 

 But here, when fo large a range of coaft was 

 difplayed at once, it loft it's pidlurefque form. 



Near Leap however we had one very 



beautiful coaft- view. A riling copfe on the left, 

 adorned with a road winding through it, makes 

 a good fore-ground. From thence a promon- 

 tory, in the fecond diftance, with an eafy, 

 fweeping fhore, flioots into the fea ; and is op- 

 pofed on the oppofite fide, by a point of the 



^ See page 132. 



ifland. 



