CHAPTER III. 
THROUGH GLADE AND COVERT. 
SHAT can be more enjoyable, during 
the burning heats of a midsum- 
mer noon, than a plunge into the 
glades of a forest, under the shel- 
ter of spreading Trees, and amidst 
3 the clustering forest under- 
* growth! The finest of our English wood- 
land ‘Trees cannot compare with the luxu- 
riant woodland growths of the tropics; 
and there is not therefore the same contrast pre- 
sented between the extremes of heat and cool- 
ness. Our forestal boundaries, too, are sadly 
limited, and the continuity of noble woods is sadly 
marred by the hand of the encloser. Our island 
is small, and there has doubtless existed a stern 
