Tour in England* 
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Orange or Cherokee rose, and where bloom 
the magnolia, the pomegranate, the myrtle, and 
a hundred other things, known only to the 
north, except in a stunted form in conservato¬ 
ries. The quarters of the slaves are neat white 
cottages, close by and clustered together, form 
quite a little village, while in the back ground 
i'ises the extensive cotton press, or large sugar 
houses, grouping picturesque enough at the 
distance, with their tall round tower like chim¬ 
neys. The forests are noble, and among other 
trees embrace the live oak, magnolia, cypress, 
cotton-wood, peccar, coffee tree and sycamore. 
From the branches of these, waves the Span¬ 
ish moss in drooping festoons, giving them a 
most hoary and venerable appearance, while up 
their tall trunks creeps the ivy and “ gadding 
vine,” clothing them in the evergreen freshness 
of youth. 
Tour iu England. No. 4 * 
For a miracle, the day proved fair which 
was agreed upon with our minister, Mr. Ste¬ 
venson, to accompany him to Babraham, for 
the purpose of selecting some South Down 
sheep, from Mr. Webb’s superior flocks, and at 
half past eight o’clock, on a fair September 
morning, we took our seats in the Norwich 
coach at the Golden Cross, close by Charing. 
The guardsman blew a merry blast from his 
bugle, the stable boys cried “ all right,” which 
was reechoed by the coachman, the crowd gave 
way, and with a mettlesome team of four high 
bred coursers, we instantly commenced our 
jaunt. Our way led through the older part of 
London, and having passengers to take up here 
and parcels there, it was a full hour before we 
had fairly emerged from the almost intermin¬ 
able labyrinth of narrow crooked streets, half 
shut out from the light of day by high gloomy 
Avails of squares after squares of soot-covered 
houses. The country was quite flat, and pre¬ 
sented much the same aspect before described in 
the vicinity of London, till we came to Epping 
Forest, which we found covering a large tract 
of wild land, the soil a hungry leechy gravel, 
altogether too poor for cultivation, and from time 
immemorial, has been suffered to grow over 
with thickets of bushes and trees, interspersed 
with small patches of coarse grass, where rose 
humble but picturesque cottages, peeping out 
from the dense mass of foliage so wildly sur¬ 
rounding them, and forming within the short 
space of a few miles, as complete a contrast as 
could be well drawn by such a scene, and the 
mighty mass of brick and mortar, composing 
the vast city from which we had just emerged. 
Save the oaks which were few and scatter¬ 
ing, and reserved for the use of government, the 
neighbouring cotters possessed here the right 
of the wood, and as fast as the tops and 
branches of the trees became a little grown, 
they were pollarded down and lopped off by 
them for sale, giving the forest a dwarfish and 
scraggy look, the most singular possible to an. 
American eye. Government, we were in¬ 
formed, held the right of pasture, but the lords 
of the manors around, that of the soil, and to 
them, by a process that a long headed English 
lawyer alone can explain, the rights of the cot¬ 
ters and government are occasionally escheated 
in detached portions of the forest, when the 
lords immediately enter upon possession, and 
append these strips of common to their already 
overgrown estates, extend their hedges or walls 
around, and commence replanting them prin¬ 
cipally with evergreens, and notwithstanding 
the poverty of the soil, such is the humidity 
and mildness of the climate, that the trees grow 
with rapidity, and from their thinnings and cut¬ 
tings soon begin to pay the owners as large an 
income for the land thus planted, as if of a richer 
kind, and under a high state of cultivation. 
The smaller game, such as hare and phae- 
sants, were quite plenty here formerly, with 
now and then a stray deer, but latterly the 
forest has been so much poached upon, that 
nearly all wild animals have become extinct 
within its shadowy precincts. But to make 
amends for them, and which is much better, 
plenty of tame ones have taken their place, 
such as the cotter’s cows, donkeys, a dwarf 
hardy race of sheep, and geese innumerable, 
that they fat here for the London market. As 
we were returning to London, we overtook a 
single flock of eight hundred on the road, 
driving up from the lower country to be par¬ 
celled out in Epping and the neighborhood, for 
preparation and convenience to their great 
market. 
After doing up fifty miles or more of a su¬ 
perlative McAdam road, at the gay and rat¬ 
tling pace of ten miles an hour, we halted at a 
roomy cottage inn, where we found the portly 
form, and cheerful ruddy face of Mr. Webb, 
waiting to receive us, and all bundling into 
his roomy gig, we started off some three miles 
farther from the main road for his hospitable 
mansion. In this country there is no use in at¬ 
tempting to do business, till the inner man is 
provided for, so imprimis , we must set down to 
a hearty lunch and a chat, and then secundus, 
we were allowed to walk out and inspect the 
flocks, which doubtless looked to our eyes one 
hundred per cent better on a full stomach, than 
an empty one. 
We recollect when landing from our ship at 
Portsmouth, and taking our course on the top 
of the stage coach through Hampshire, of see¬ 
ing in this our first days ride in England, more 
