216 OUR WOODLAND TREES. 
forest hollows, with water fringed by blackberry 
and clustering brake, and margined by Oak 
and Poplar, with their trembling leaves glinting 
in the sunlight. Beyond the wood, where the 
railway has cut the forest, the ride crosses 
the railway-bridge, and, in a northerly direction, 
plunges again into woodland, across turf, through 
scattered Oak and Birch, and by forest pools. 
Thence, on through the long expanse of Gilbert’s 
Glade, margined by Oak and Hornbeam, Beech and 
Birch, with underwood of forest growth. On still 
through the Manor of Higham Hills, across an 
undulating ‘drift,’ where Oak, Elm, and Beech con- 
trast their varying foliage, passing by the west of 
Sale Wood, and across the road from Woodford 
to Chingford Hatch, into the ‘ Lops,’ a sparsely 
wood-covered piece of forest, with Oak, and Beech, 
and scattered Holly. 
The ride, running northerly, now leads through 
the undulating surface of Chingford drift, with 
its fine Trees, and passes by the level margin of 
the Ching—the brook which gave its name to 
Chingford—continuing on by the large reed pond, 
under the wide-extending arms of goodly Oaks, 
