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and through forest glades; rising, as it pro- 
ceeds, until Hlizabeth’s Lodge is reached, on the 
summit of an upland, from’ which a beautiful 
woodland view is obtained. Leaving Elizabeth’s 
Lodge, the ride leads across a tract of open 
forest, to the east of the Great Hawkwood. 
Thence on, along an irregular, and tortuous 
course, through undulating forest, to Fairmead 
Bottom, and away beyond, first to the north and 
then to the east, through woodland covered by 
stunted forms of Oak, Hornbeam, and Beech, until 
the eastern limits of Little and of Great Monk- 
wood are reached—woodlands of rare beauty, 
with goodly forms of Oak and Birch, and thickly 
spreading underwood. And now the ride con- 
tinues its course along the remainder of the 
forest glades of Loughton, the home of the 
Epping deer, where Oak and Holly, Hornbeam, 
Beech, and Birch, picturesque but stunted, form 
the prevailing woods. 
Circuitously now the ride leads on by the up- 
land sides in the woods of Loughton and Theydon 
Bois, turning first easterly, then northerly, then 
westerly, and, approaching the road to Epping, 
