CHAPTER VI. 
ON THE UPLANDS. 
SZC EFORE we leave what is called ‘ the 
SWA5N\2 hill country’ of the New Forest, 
we may get a delightful peep at, 
some of the wildest of its scenery. 
If we stand on the height at 
Stoney Cross facing northwards, 
and from the position marked by the inn, 
‘ take a westward course for about a mile, 
a winding round to the right, until we get 
to a position facing to the south-east, we can 
look down upon a beautiful landscape. On 
both sides of our way from Stoney Cross we 
shall find open forest, consisting of a slightly 
undulated table-land, covered with gorse, brake, 
and heather. When we have wound round 
the crest of this table-land, following the curving 
