148 The New Forest : its History and its Scenenj. 



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with blue bells, and 

 strewed with yellow tufts 

 of primroses. In the 

 summer, too, the ground 

 is as deep a green with 

 ferns as the oak leaves 

 above ; whilst the stream 

 flows between banks bor- 

 dered with blue skull- 

 cap and purple helle- 

 borine.* 



Then, as you climb 

 up to the down, on the 

 opposite side, stretches a 

 \dew, hard to be matched 

 in England either for 

 extent or beauty. On 

 one side rolls the Eng- 



* Chewton is not men- 

 tioned in Z)om^S(/«^. Beckley 

 (Beceslei), which is close 

 by, where there was a mill 

 which paid thirty pence, had 

 a quarter of its land taken 

 into the Forest ; whilst 

 Baishley (Bichelei) suffered 

 in the same proportion 

 Fernhill lost two-thirds of 

 its worst land, and IMilton 

 (iMildeltune) half a hyde and 

 its woods, which fed forty 

 hogs, by which its rental 

 was reduced to one-half 



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