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and good humor, for which fhe is fo much diftinguifhed ; and 
what higher joy can we receive than, after a long abfence, to 
meet the eyes of thofe we love, efpecially if we are beloved by 
them ? If to fee others happy, in thefe inftances, can give very 
quick fenfations of pleafure, thofe which the parties themfelves 
enjoy, with the fame humane difpofttion, mull be more affect- 
ing. But, alas, you hardly received your friend into your arms, 
before you was (hatched away from her to purfue your rout. 
Leaving Salisbury we directed our courfe to langford the 
feat of lord folkstone. This place lies three or four miles 
north-weft from Salisbury, and the garden is watered by a 
branch of the Avon. It is fttuated upon a dead flat, conflfting 
chiefly of a lawn ; and a gravel walk, between a plantation of 
flowering fhrubs, terminated by a little fummer houfe. You 
obferved that the river lies too open, the trees being thinly 
planted, and not affording any fhelter from the fun, as we found 
by a painful experience, for it was then intenfely hot. 
The view of the adjacent country is moft agreeable, being 
well wooded, and riftng with a gradual afcent : indeed every 
fpot in this country feems to have fome peculiar charm. 
The houfe is remarkable for being built in a triangular form : 
it is compofed of many good apartments; and convenience with 
grandeur feem to be fo admirably mixed, that one is rather 
tempted to envy the poffeffor for the comfort he may enjoy 
in it, than for the gratification of his pride, or ambition. 
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