The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . brook falls at a short distance below itssprings is one of the many abrupt surprises in scenery which the islandfurnishes. The Medina creek runs right up between the houses, and themasts of the lighters and small coasters rise among the roofs of thisinland town. Newport is not the ancient capital of the island. Its rise, like thedecay of Yarmouth, was caused by the French invasions. The originalcapital of the island was at Newtown, anciently called Francheville, which THE ISLE OF WIGHT 31 stands, or rather sto
The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . brook falls at a short distance below itssprings is one of the many abrupt surprises in scenery which the islandfurnishes. The Medina creek runs right up between the houses, and themasts of the lighters and small coasters rise among the roofs of thisinland town. Newport is not the ancient capital of the island. Its rise, like thedecay of Yarmouth, was caused by the French invasions. The originalcapital of the island was at Newtown, anciently called Francheville, which THE ISLE OF WIGHT 31 stands, or rather stood, on an estuary between Yarmouth and Cowes. Thiswas the natural port of the island in the days of the early Angevinkings, facing their harbour at Lymington, whither they came from theircapital at Winchester, through the royal domain of the New at Newtown, the king found the best natural harbour in the island,with a depth of water sufficient to float a 500-ton ship, on the borders ofanother royal forest, that of Avington or Parkhurst, which stretched from ?.-^j.
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