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without it, all may find recreation — the va- 

 rious promenades, either for walking, ridings 

 rowing, or failing, being fuch as to invite and 

 to gratify even the moft faftidlous. Pleafant 

 walks, delightful water excurfions, and the 

 fineft foreft rides, abound on every quarter, 

 offering all the variety of open country, In- 

 clofed fields, fea and river views, and wood- 

 land fcenery. Nor are the common and more 

 generally ftriking lions of the neighbourhood 

 lefs abundant : there being, within reach, a 

 multitude of towns, places, and objedts which 

 ufually attrad the attention of ftrangers, fuch 

 as Portfmouth and its dock-yard, Gofport 

 and its hofpital, the Ifle of Wight, the fleet 

 at Spithead, Winchefter, Lymington, Lynd- 

 hurft, Netley Abbey, &c. &c, &c. 



In fliort, Southampton would feem to be 

 one of the few places equally calculated for 

 the invalid, the idle, and the gay ; for each 

 may find the purfuit fitted for his habits and 

 inclinations. Without the too common ex- 

 cefs of diflipation, this place offers every re- 

 creation and amufement that a rational mind 

 can defire \ and, in the happy combination 



