Exbury, and Beaulieu Heath. 



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must be set down to that ignorance of geography, which has 

 involved all Greek writers in such extraordinary mistakes. 



Leap itself is now nothing but a village, with a scattered 

 agricultural population ; some few, however, maintaining them- 

 selves by fishing in the summer, and in the winter by shooting 

 the ducks and geese which flock to the creeks and harbours of 

 the Solent. Leaving it, and still keeping westward, we come 

 to the Beaulieu river, where, in the autumn, after the heavy 

 floods from the Forest, the salmon leap and sport in the 

 freshets. The road now winds past Exbury by the side of 

 thick copses which fringe the river. At last, at Hill Top, we 

 reach Beaulieu Heath, and, in the far distance, the green foliage 

 of the Forest hangs cloudlike in the air, whilst down in the 

 valley lies the village of Beaulieu. 



The Norman Doorway of Fawley Church.. 



