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and not removed enough to lofe it's forma- 

 lities. This part therefore may be confidered 

 only as a foil. The grand opening is towards 

 the fouth. Here we found a ftation, which 

 commanded a very noble view. The heath, 

 making a gentle dip, prefents a vaft bay, 

 which fpreads the whole foreft, in a manner, 

 before the eye as far as the fea, in one vaft 

 expanfe of fcenery. Bramble-hill, one of the 

 lodges of the foreft, ftanding on a knoll, on the 

 left, about half a mile below the eye, occupies 

 one fide of the opening into this immenfe woody 

 diftance, and another prominence, on which 

 ftand the ruins of Caftle-Malwood, occupies 

 the other. The ftation may eafily be found 

 by this direction. Between thefe two pro- 

 montories, the eye is conducted from wood, 

 to wood, over lawns and heaths, through 

 every ftiade of perfpedtive, till all diftindion 

 at length is loft ; and the eye doubts whether 

 it is ftill roving over the tufted woods of 

 the foreft ; or is landed upon the diftant 

 ftiore of the iile of Wight -, or is wandering 

 among the hazy ftreaks of the horizon. At 

 leaft it had that dubious appearance, when 

 we faw it. But it is one of the choice 

 recommendations of thefe extenfive fcenes, 



that 

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