On the shore at MARCHWOOD stands a powder magazine, erected towards the close of the late war. It occupies a space of about twenty acres, which is partly enclosed by a high wall. It was intended as a depository for such quantities of powder as might not immediately be wanted at Portsmouth, to obviate the danger of keeping a large store at that place. There are four repositories for the powder, large quantities of which were kept at this place during the war. At that time, from eighty to one hundred soldiers were constantly stationed at this magazine, for the use of whom several neat cottages or barracks were erected in the front of the works. These are now occupied by labourers from the neighbourhood, who do the duty of the soldiers in keeping guard, and receive pay from government. The storehouses and offices are built in a line with the barracks, and the governor's house is at a short distance from them.

About four miles from Dibden, is BURY FARM, the property of Sir Charles Mill, bart. The manor is held by an ancient grant from the crown, on condition' of its possessor's presenting to the reigning monarch, when he enters New Forest, a pair of white greyhounds. This custom was observed when His present Majesty visited New Forest, in the year 1789; and the late Rev. Sir Charles Mill presented them to him, on the king's alighting from his carriage at Lyndhurst.

When the present house was built, on the site of the ancient family mansion at Bury, in removing the former building, and digging the foundations of the new one, many Roman coins were discovered, which are still in the possession of Sir C. Mill.

In about a mile, we arrive at ELING, a considerable village, with some trade in corn. It occurs in Domesday-book, as a place of some consequence; and is there called Edlinges. Hence it appears, that, in the time of Edward the Confessor, this manor was under obligation to provide half a day's entertainment for the king, when he should come this way. In the time of William the Conqueror, it had a church, two mills, a fishery, and a saltern.*

In sinking a well in this parish, Mr. Thomas King discovered, at the depth of about thirty-six feet, a number of fossil shells. This circumstance corroborates an observation of Mr. Gilpin's, who remarks, in speaking of the fossils found on the shore near Christchurch, (see page 66 of this work,) that this stratum of shells runs in a northerly direction quite through New Forest. (Eling lies north-east of Christchurch.) "What is remarkable, few of these shells belong to this coast, or indeed to any European coast: some of them are said to be tropical."+

Eling is a vicarage, under private patronage. The population of the parish, in 1801, consisted of 2889 persons; in 1811, of 3282 persons.

Eling church is a structure of some antiquity; and ap pears to have been built at different times. It is neatly fitted up, and roomy; the parish being very extensive.

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In the middle aile, is a flat stone, to the memory William Bernard, M. A. a native of Gloucestershire, ten years minister of the church of Holy Rood, in Southampton. The Latin inscription gives him the high

* Warner's Hamp. ext. from Domesday, pp. 20, 21.
t Gilpin's Forest Scenery, vol. ii. p. 88.

praise of being worn out by the assiduous labours of his function. He died in the year 1666, aged forty. Near him lies Richard Speed, forty years vicar of Eling, who died in 1757. Next is Sir John Mill, bart. who died in 1705, aged twenty-three. Others of this family are

buried here.

Within the rails of the communion-table, is a brass plate, with a Latin inscription, to the memory of William Pawlet, son of Lord Chidiock Pawlet,† of the family of the Pawlets of Basing, who died in 1596, aged forty-two.

On the north side of the table, is a marble monument of Richard Pawlet, esq. formerly of Gray's Inn, barristerat law, descended from the Pawlets, of Basing, who died in 1737, aged seventy-five, at his seat of Little Testwood, where he had lived many years in retirement.

Opposite, John Mylles Speed is commemorated, who died in 1792, aged forty-six. He was son of Dr. Speed of Southampton, and succeeded his uncle, Samuel Speed, as vicar of Eling, in 1776.

There is a monument also to Gilbert Serle, esq. born at Leghorn, but brought into England in his fifth year. He received his education at Oxford, and was well read in history. He represented Andover in the last parliament of queen Anne. He married Anne, daughter of Peter Vansittart, esq. and died in 1720, aged thirty-two.

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I venerate the man whose heart is warm,

Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life,
Coincident, exhibit lucid proof,

That he is honest in the sacred cause."

+ Lord Chidiock Pawlet, of Wade, in this county, was third son of Lord Pawlet, of Basing; and was governor of Portsmouth, in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth. This William was his son by his second wife.-Worsley's Isle of Wight, p. 95.

In this church is also buried the Rev. John Pinhorne, formerly vicar of Eling, and master of the Free Grammar School at Southampton, under whom the amiable, learned, and pious Dr. Watts received the rudiments of a liberal education, and to whom "the gratitude of his scholar has inscribed a Latin ode." He died in 1714, aged sixty-two.

Chained to reading-stands, on each side of the communion-table, are the two folio volumes of Comber's Companion to the Temple. These were many years ago the donation of one who had been a boatswain in the navy, and, in that situation, of no very circumspect life; but in his latter days he grew reformed, and left these volumes for the edification of others.*

In one of the parish chests, is a curious ancient iron box, formerly used for collecting money. Its weight and clumsiness must have made the work of charity a toil to the church-warden.

In the tower is a ring of six musical bells, of modern date.

From this place the traveller may turn to Totton, scarcely a mile distant, through which the road lies, (as before, p. 20,) to Southampton, less than five miles.

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We proceed to TOTTON as before; but, avoiding the roads on the right and left, keep straight forward. yond the fourth stone, we pass through a close lane into NETLEY MARSH, lately enclosed.

Beyond the fifth stone, we enter a beautiful lane, edged with wood. Scenes of cultivation are interspersed, and cottages now and then appear. We observe several coppices of young timber. The views sometimes open, and afford distant wood scenery, with grand forest back grounds.

Having passed the Coach and Horses, a little inn, on the left, the road is more open. On the left also is seen, among the trees, a villa called LAMB'S CORNER.

We have now a forest road. Soon after passing the eighth stone, we see the little village of CADENHAM, re