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are frequented by numerous members of the Crow tribe, and I have seen 

 the Kingfisher darting along the small stream which traverses them. 



After exploring the Lyndhurst neighbourhood, it will be well to turn 

 one's at'tention to Beaulieu, and the famous river which runs thence into 

 the Solent. Beaulieu is not an easy place to get at. You can either go to 

 Beaulieu Road and walk three and a half miles across the heath, or take 

 the boat to Hythe, which is five miles off along a similar road ; but the 



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annoying thing is that, when you do get there, it is almost certain that you 

 will be unable to secure a boat, and anyone who wishes to follow the river 

 must do so by the primitive method of forcing a passage through the thickets 

 which fringe the banks on either side. It is about nine miles to the river's 

 mouth, and six miles thence along the Solent to Lymington ; and allowing 

 for the tiring nature of the walking, the person who starts from Beaulieu 

 Road, and follows the above-mentioned route, will have had enough of it by 

 the time the Lymington harbour appears in sight. 



