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the neigh of a wild horse, or perhaps deep, from 

 a deep chest, hke the baying of a bloodhound. 



Eichmond Park (2,470 acres) both in its vast 

 extent and character is unlike any other metro- 

 politan open space. The noblest of the breath- 

 ing-spaces on our borders, it is also the most 

 accessible, and more or less well known to tens 

 of thousands of persons ; but it is probably 

 intimately known only to a few. Speaking for 

 myself, I can say that after having visited it 

 occasionally for years, sometimes to spend a 

 whole day in it, sometimes to get lost in it, 

 both in fine aiid foggy weather, I do not know 

 it so well as other large open spaces which have 

 not been visited more often. Any person well 

 acquainted with the country would probably 

 find it easy at a moment's notice to name half a 

 dozen parks which have pleased him better 

 than this one, on account of a certain monotony 

 in the scenery of Eichmond, but in size it would 

 surpass most or all of them. So large is it that 

 half a dozen such London parks as Clissold, 

 Waterlow, and Eavenscourt might easily be 

 hidden in one corner of it, where it would 

 not be easy to find them. There are roads 



