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OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

WESTERN PARTS OF ENGLAND,

RELATIVE CHIEFLY TO

PICTURESQUE BEAUTY.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

A FEW REMARKS ON THE PICTURESQUE BEAUTIES
OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT.

BY WILLIAM GILPIN, M. A.

PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY; AND VICAR OF BOLDRE IN

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PRINTED FOR T. CADELL JUN. AND W. DAVIES, STRAND.

1798.

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TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

HENRY ADDINGTON,

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

DEAR SIR,

TH

HOUGH your inquiries and pursuits have always been of a much higher nature than the subject of these papers, yet I take the liberty of prefenting them to you, as I am perfuaded you do not difapprove in others, what the rigid economy of your own time will not fuffer you to pursue with much attention yourself.

My book would gladly, however, ftill offer itself to your notice, from some little personal affinity. It describes a country, through which you have

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