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 THE SECOND EDITION. LONDON, PRINTED FOR T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND. THOUGH 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 fuffer you to pursue with much attention yourself. My book would gladly, however, ftill offer itself to your notice, from fome little perfonal affinity. It describes a country, through which you have A 2 |