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various other purpofes, cannot but make a 

 coniiderable change in it's fcenery. The de- 

 fcription therefore, which I have given of it, 

 is not the defcription of what it was in the 

 laft century, nor of what it will be in the next. 

 Many alterations in particular fcenes have 

 taken place, even fmce this work was begun. 

 In a fore-ground, the cutting down of two 

 or three ftately trees makes an eflential al- 

 teration ; and much change of this kind hath 

 been made in many places. In thefe inftances 

 therefore the remarks here offered muft be 

 conlidered as hijioryy rather than as defcription. 

 They attempt to chronicle fcenes, which once 

 exifted, and are now gone. That grand vifta, 

 which hath been defcribed between Brokenhurft, 

 and Lyndhurft, hath, iince thefe remarks were 

 made, undergone much change. Many of the 

 nobler trees, which adorned it, have been felled : 

 and many of the old decaying trees, and others 

 which had been ftunted under the Ihade of thofe, 

 that had been felled, are now grown ftill more 

 decayed, and ragged. They are ill-clad and thin : 

 and their withered branches every where ftare 

 out, unadorned, and naked through their meagre 

 foliage. From thefe caufes, and the deformed 

 gaps, which the felling of good trees hath oc- 



cafioned. 



