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round, which fhapes the lower part of them 

 into a fort of femi-circular valley. To the 

 hanging woods of this very pidiurefque bank, 

 a clofe, defcending walk from the houfe, fol- 

 lowing the direcftion of the foreft-boundary, 

 unites the garden. 



The woody bank, which is the grand 

 circumftance of the view, having thus circled 

 the meadows, falls away towards the eftuary 

 of the river ; and becomes one of it's high 

 inclofures. On the other fide it is interfedted 

 by rifing ground, on which ftands the town 

 of Lymington at the diflance of a mile*. 

 Over the dip, formed by this interfedlion, 

 rifes, as if fitted for the place, a lofty part of 

 the ifle of Wight ; from which a ridge of 

 high land continues, paffing over the town 

 as a back-ground. Below the ifland appears 

 a fmall catch of the channel : but the inter- 

 vening woods of the eaflern fkreen have now 

 almoft intercepted it; interpoling one beau- 

 tiful circumftance in the room of another. 



* See the fituation of Lymington defcribed, page 94. 



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