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the diftant woods to meet it — and then lofes 



itfelf imperceptibly in the depths of the 

 foreft. 



Somewhere in this part, between Lyndhurfl 

 and Rumfey, a charitable fcheme was projected 

 in favour of a body of Palatines, who took 

 refuge in England, in the reign of queen 

 Anne ; and engaged the humane part of the 

 nation in endeavouring to provide means for 

 their fupport. Many benevolent projects were 

 formed j and among others this of fettling 

 them in New-foreft : and the matter was 

 thought fo practicable, that it was digefted 

 into a regular plan ; and laid before the lord 

 treafurer Godolphin. 



The arrangement was this. A fquare plot 

 of ground, containing four thoufand acres, 

 was to be marked out, and equally divided 

 into four parts, by two roads running through 

 it, and crofling at right angles, in the center. 

 Each of thefe four parts was to be fubdivided 

 into five, fo that the whole plot might be pro- 

 portioned into twenty farms ; each of two 

 hundred acres. This provifion of farms being 

 made, twenty of the beft, and moft refpedable 



Palatine 



