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than common, and properly accompanied, 

 and balanced with fore-ground; we might 

 be tempted to forget it's under-fize ; and feeing 

 fo large a pidure, might acknowledge fome- 

 thing like an equality with nature : we might 

 overlook the deception, and in fome degree, 

 feci thofe fublime ideas which nature itfelf 

 excites. 



Befides this grand and extenfive diftance, 

 which we furveyed between Bramble-hill, and 

 the ruins of Caftle -Mai wood, we found many 

 views of the fame kind, as we traverfed the 

 high, and heathy grounds towards Fritham, 

 and Fordinoj-bridge. But the hills about 

 Boldre-wood, and Lyndhurft occupying the 

 middle fpace between the northern, and fouth- 

 ern parts of the foreft, and intercepting our 

 views, the more we proceed in a weftern di- 

 re(5tion, I know not, whether, on the whole, 

 the view we have juft taken, is not one of 

 the moft extenfive, and mofl amufmg, which 

 the whole foreft exhibits. 1 cannot there- 

 fore conclude a defcription of New-foreft more 

 properly, than with this grand exhibition, 

 which in a manner, comprehends the whole. 



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