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tances are varied as you view them from the 

 upper, and lower parts of the lawn -, and in 

 general, as they are circumfcribed by the high 

 lands, which bound the eftuary, they are 

 much more pidurefque, and in the eye of a 

 painter more beautiful, than thofe vaft exten- 

 five views of the ifland and channel, which we 

 have fo often before remarked from various 

 parts of the coaft. 



As Mr. Cleavland's has a better view of 

 the water, the vicarage has a better view of 

 the woods. A houfe built, where it could 

 command both fcenes, would enjoy a grand 

 fituation. The view however is fo good, 

 that it will bear a divifion ; and yet each part 

 form a whole. The vicarage ftands in the 

 garden ; clofed on every fide, but the fouth, 

 which is the afpedt of the bell: rooms. Before 

 it is fpread a fmall lawn, proportioned to it's 

 lize. At the end of the lawn, which is alfo 

 the boundary of the foreft, is a funk-fence ; 

 connecting it with the meadows beyond. 

 Thefe meadows declining to the fouth, and 

 eaft, form the brow of Vicar's-hill in thofe 

 directions ; and are fkreened by the grand 

 woody bank, above-mentioned, wheeUng gently 



round. 



