The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . he blue Solentopens out in the way Cobbett describes. Belle Vue rather thanBeaulieu would be an appropriate name, the former being properrather to the place you look from than the place you look at. Thecoast of the forest is here so sheltered by the screen of the Isleof Wight hills that it is not till within half a mile of the shore, beyondthe ruins at St. Leonards, that the tops of the oaks begin to incline in rHE NEJV FOREST 67 one direction, the certain sign of sea breezes. The cultivated fields rundown alm
The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . he blue Solentopens out in the way Cobbett describes. Belle Vue rather thanBeaulieu would be an appropriate name, the former being properrather to the place you look from than the place you look at. Thecoast of the forest is here so sheltered by the screen of the Isleof Wight hills that it is not till within half a mile of the shore, beyondthe ruins at St. Leonards, that the tops of the oaks begin to incline in rHE NEJV FOREST 67 one direction, the certain sign of sea breezes. The cultivated fields rundown almost to the beach, and partridges may be seen feeding in thegrowing corn within a stones throw of the breakers. Seen across thenarrow waters, the line of the island stretches back eastward beyond theline of sight, and the visitor might imagine himself on the shores of theHellespont, separated only from another continent by the narrow strip ofdissociable ocean, guarded like the entrance to the Propontis by castlesand fortresses, where the parapets and battlements of Hurst break the. T/:e Edge of the Forest near Lfmington. line of skv, and the series of batteries old and new line the oppositecoast with signs and tokens that here also are set the gates of long low sweep of shore which runs from the sandspit at the mouthof the Beaulieu river to the point at which it begins to be silted up bythe mud deposits of the Lymington river, is fronted by shingle, andcrossed by innumerable groins of oak trunks driven deep into the these the shore slopes up to a green bank, which makes abeautiful turf drive within a itiy^ yards of the sea, backed by hedges asgreen and luxuriant as any on the manor, and fields of growing is not difficult to picture the joy in harvest of those whose lot it is E 2 68 THE NEIV FOREST to cut and reap the corn by this lovely inland sea, where a man mayleave binding the sheaves, or the mowers rest at midday, and cross thefence to whe
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