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right, if you get your back to it and face west, down 

 on the slope, is a bur oak. North-west of the bur oak 

 stands English oak, very close to the Walk. Still 

 keeping your stand by the lamp-post, to your left, 

 up the rise a little is white oak, and west of it, red 

 oak. Lamp-posts are not to be despised. They can 

 be used to light the steps in more ways than one 

 and I hope you have found them sprinkled very 

 generously over the diagrams of this book. Their 

 presence, I thought, would serve to correct judg- 

 ments of distance or to reassure judgments of correct 

 distancing. Sometimes it happens that a bush is cut 

 out or a tree cut down. Landmarks of this kind often 

 disappear, but lamp-posts are not cut down so fre- 

 quently. 



Let us now come back to the Walk again. We 

 pass over quite a little stretch of meadow until we 

 come near two catalpas that have been cut down to 

 mere stumps of trunks. These are on the right of 

 the Walk, and not very far from Meadow Port Arch. 

 If you cut across from them, to the left, over the 

 grass and across the Drive, you will find another 

 lamp-post. The first tree to the south of this lamp- 

 post, on the Drive, is a purple leaved English elm, 

 the next is an Austrian pine, the next is a curled- 

 leaved English elm and is located directly opposite 

 another lamp-post on the other side of the Drive, so 

 you can scarcely help finding these trees. Back of 

 lamp-post number one, in this enlightened gathering 

 of things botanical and mineral, you will find another 

 Turkey oak, close by the Walk and in fine condition. 



