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, A.M.

PREBENDARY OF SALISBURY; AND VICAR OF BOLDRE IN
NEW-FOREST, NEAR LYMINGTON.

THE SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

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

1808.

ENOUSH
OXFORD

LIBRARY

Strahan and Prefton, Printers-Street, London,

TO THE

RIGHT HONOURABLE

HENRY ADDINGTON,

SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

DEAR SIR,

THOUG

HOUGH your inquiries and purfuits 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 disapprove in others, what the rigid economy of your own time will not suffer you to pursue with much attention yourself.

My book would gladly, however, ftill offer itself to your notice, from fome little perfonal affinity. It defcribes a country, through which you have

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