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bably from the fair advantage it gives the 

 hound in purfuit. If he can drive his chafe, 

 from the thickets into this open plain, it is 

 probable he will there fecure him. 



Through the middle of this wide down 

 the Lyndhurft road palles to Southampton. 

 The entrance into it, on the Lyndhurft fide, 

 is beautiful ; particularly between the ninth 

 and tenth ftones, where the ground is finely 

 diverfified with thofe woody promontories juft 

 mentioned. As we approach the top of the 

 hill towards Southampton, the beauty of the 

 fcene is gone : the extremity is a naked, 

 barren boundary. One advantage however 

 we obtain from it, which is a diftance, in 

 foreft-fcenery the more valuable, as the more 

 uncommon. Dillances are, at all times, an 

 agreeable part of landfcape, and unite with 

 every 7Jtode of compofition. Here it is intro- 

 duced at firft in it's Jimplejl mode. A plain 

 fore-ground, without any ornament, is joined 

 to a removed diltance, without the intervention 

 of any middle ground. In a compofition of 

 this fimple kind it is necellary to break 

 the lines of the fore -ground ; which may 

 eaiily be done by a tree, or group of cattle. — 



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