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on the edge of the foreft, the fituation of 

 it is nearly conformable to the wifh of the 

 poet : 



-Be my retreat 



Between the groaning foreft, and the fliore, 

 A rural, Iheltered, folitary fcene*. 



The two laft of thefe epithets indeed belong 

 not to it. It ftands rather lofty, tho not high ; 

 and is To far from being folitary, that it enjoys 

 a good neighbourhood. 



From this knoll, the views are ingroffed 

 by two houfes, Mr. Cleavland's, and the vicar- 

 age ', the united plantations of which exclude 

 the profped: from all other parts of the hill. 

 From both thefe houfes the views are beau- 

 tiful ', but they are of different kinds. Mr. 

 Cleavland's {landing on the weft lide of the 

 knoll, has a view of Lymington-river, which 

 forms one of it's beft fweeps below his 

 lawn. From hence the eye is carried along 

 the river to it's opening into the channel ; of 

 which — together with the ihores around — the 

 illand beyond — and the town of Lymington — 

 the diftant landfcape is formed. Thefe dif- 



* Thompfou's winter. 



tances 



