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WOODLAND SCENERY. 



Our next meeting was, by appointment, at 

 Mrs. Heathfield's. To her estate appertained, 

 by the terms of a recent enclosure, about twen- 

 ty acres of wild forest land ; this being her 

 share in the general distribution. She was not 

 tempted by any notion of gain, nor by the love 

 of change to reduce any part of this beautiful 

 property to a bare expanse, for the purposes 

 of common agriculture. The expectations of 

 many, who had, with high hopes of immediate 

 profits, thus proceeded on their allotments, had 

 been, as she well knew, wofully disappointed : 

 but, had the case been otherwise, her own 

 ample means, and her prevailing taste for the 

 natural beauties of woodland scenery, would 



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