The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . t beenan abbey ; but the place is one of the finest that ever was seen in thisworld. It stands at about half-a-mile distance from the waters edge athigh-water mark, and at about the middle of the space along the coastfrom Calshot Castle to Lymington Haven. To the right you see HurstCastle and that narrow passage called the Needles : and to the left you seeSpithead, and all the ships that are sailing or lie anywhere opposite 1 A good inn, the Montagu Arras, with modern comfort and old prices, must becounted amo


The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . t beenan abbey ; but the place is one of the finest that ever was seen in thisworld. It stands at about half-a-mile distance from the waters edge athigh-water mark, and at about the middle of the space along the coastfrom Calshot Castle to Lymington Haven. To the right you see HurstCastle and that narrow passage called the Needles : and to the left you seeSpithead, and all the ships that are sailing or lie anywhere opposite 1 A good inn, the Montagu Arras, with modern comfort and old prices, must becounted among the attractions of Beaulieu. THE NEIV FOREST 65 Portsmouth. The Isle of Wight is right before you, and you have inview at one and the same time, the towns of Yarmouth, Newtown, Cowes,and Newport, with all the beautiful fields of the island, lying upon theside of a great bank before and going up the ridge of hills in the middleof the island. The ruins consist of part of the walls of a building about 200 feetlong and 40 wide. It has been turned into a barn, in part, and the rest. f »-riki *,s ;*)«?§ *l_ If T^ 1 filif#,-# rf^^v/ III l^^^C/-


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