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portant, that no juft idea of it, can be given, 

 without referring to the book itfelf. 



From Dibden, we continued our rout 

 northward, till we entered a beautiful foreft 

 lawn. We had found many of thefe fcenes 

 in different parts, each of which had fome- 

 thing peculiar to itfelf*. This too had it's 

 peculiar charadler. It was about two miles 

 in diameter. To the eye it's limits appeared 

 circular; it's form an eafy defcent, on every 

 fide, to a wide flat centre. Yet it was far 

 from a regular fcene. It's great beauty con- 

 lifted chiefly in it's noble flcreens of foreft- 

 wood 3 which growing every where around it 

 with great irregularity, broke out into the 

 fkirts of the area, not in clumps, which in fo 

 large a fcene would have had little effect, but 

 in corners of woods, adding variety to it's 

 limits ; yet without incroaching on the iim- 

 plicity, and grandeur of the general idea. 

 The name of this beautiful, and extenfive 

 foreft-fcene is Hound' s-down ; fo named pro- 



* See page 147. 



bably 



