CHAPTER XI. 
THROUGH A GREEN RIDE. 
GREEN ride through a Royal 
Forest—now preserved for the 
free use and enjoyment, to all 
time, of the people of these 
islands! We had gone, on one 
of our woodland rambles, to the 
little village of Loughton, on the borders of 
Epping Forest; and it was there that Mr. 
William D’Oyley, the genial and excellent 
Superintendent of the Forest, explained to us a 
plan—first suggested by Mr. B. H. Cowper—by 
which it was proposed to open up—by the utiliza- 
tion of existing forest paths, and by the bringing of 
these into continuity—the glades and woods of this 
beautiful recreation ground, to those who might 
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