PREFACE 



TO THE FIRST EDITION 



UNDER the title of the New Forest, I have thought it 

 best to include the whole district lying between the 

 Southampton Water and the Avon, which, in the be- 

 ginning of Edward I.'s reign, formed its boundaries. 

 To have restricted myself to its present limits would 

 have deprived the reader of all the scenery along the 

 coast, and that contrast which a Forest requires to 

 bring out all its beauties. 



The maps are drawn from those of the Ordnance 

 Survey, reduced to the scale of half an inch to the 

 mile, with the additions of the names of the woods 

 taken from the Government Map of the Forest, and 

 my own notes. 



The illustrations have been made upon the principle 

 that they shall represent the scene as it looked at the 

 time it was taken. Nothing has since been added, 

 nothing left out. The views appear as they were on the 

 day they were drawn. Two exceptions occur. The 

 ugly modern windows of Calshot Castle, and the clock- 

 face on the tower of the Priory Church of Christchurch, 

 have been omitted. 



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