6 The New Forest : its History and its Scenery. 



to use their superfluous energies than in learning their own 

 country by walking over its best scenes. 



I will only ask any one to make the experiment between 

 walking and driving over the same ground ; and see how much 

 he will learn by the one, how much lose by the other method. 

 In the one case, he simply hurries or stops at the discretion 

 of some ignorant driver, who regards him of less importance 

 than his horses ; in the other, he can pause to sketch many 

 a scene before invisible, can at his leisure search each heath 

 or quarry for flowers or fossils, can turn aside across the field- 

 paths to any village church, or wander through any wood which 

 may invite him to its solitude, and, above all, know the pleasure 

 of being tired, and the sweetness of rest in the noontide shade. 



The Entrance from Barrows Moor to Mark Ash. 



