The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . ncient that is as havingalways been wooded ground. But their character is wholly are the woods of a manor, grown for profit, carefully tended, andfull of the close and beautiful sous bois, or underwood, which in theforest has disappeared, and left only the haut bois, or timber trees. Others account for the moat and turrets round Palace House by the taste forFrench architecture acquired by the duke in his residence abroad. Part of the woodswere also laid out on the French system. 72 THE NEIF FORE
The New Forest and the Isle of WightWith eight plates and many other illustrations . ncient that is as havingalways been wooded ground. But their character is wholly are the woods of a manor, grown for profit, carefully tended, andfull of the close and beautiful sous bois, or underwood, which in theforest has disappeared, and left only the haut bois, or timber trees. Others account for the moat and turrets round Palace House by the taste forFrench architecture acquired by the duke in his residence abroad. Part of the woodswere also laid out on the French system. 72 THE NEIF FOREST The woods on the opposite bank have that carded look, like curlyhair combed, which sea-breezes give to trees as well as to sailors locks ;but except for this and the cries of the lapwings and the redshanks inthe rushy meadow below there is nothing in the view which opens onleaving the wood to suggest that the water in front is anything butan inland lake. It winds between the hills exactly like a branch ofVirginia Water. On the low ridge to the left is a square built village of. Beaulieu River at Buckiers Hard. good old red brick, brown tiled houses ; not so much a village indeed as astreet, running at right angles to the river, and looking like a section ofold Portsea cut away and set down in the woods. And that is exactlywhat it is ; a fragment of the great arsenal, left high and dry by time onthe shores of the Beaulieu river. Here, on the green slope where thecattle feed and children play, was built of New Forest oak, Nelsons shipthe Agamemnon, 64, the ship which he was commanding when he lost his rHE NEIV FOREST 73 right eye at the siege of Calvi, the ship which carried his flag in thebattle of the Baltic, one of whose crew, at the battle of St. Vincent,tucked under his arm the swords of the Spanish officers as if gatheringsticks for a faggot. Those whose boding fancy foresees a time when nosign will be left of the great industries of the North but burnt-out cinderheaps,
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