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Remarks on forest scenery and other woodland views
Remarks on forest scenery and other woodland views Author:William Gilpin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: added greatly to Mr Gilpin's list of our remarkable native trees, and we have very largely augmented the history of the British forests, which we considered as a... more » very curious and important part of the subject. Availing ourselves of the licence which the desultory nature of our task has allowed us, we have not scrupled to introduce whatever we thought might add to the value or the interest of these volumes : it will therefore be found, that they contain many scientific fragments, and also some anecdotes, historical and otherwise, which, it is humbly hoped, will rather tend to lighten than encumber their pages. Whilst we have retained the most essential of Mr Gilpin's delineations, we have deemed it advisable to change, or to improve, several of them. A number of illustrations have been added from original sketches, by Mr Kidd and Mr Forbes, both of them celebrated artists in their respective departments, whose labours, we trust, will be found to have considerably improved the value of Mr Gilpin's book. The Grange House. Nov. 30, 1833. chapter{Section 4ORIGINAL DEDICATION WILLIAM MITFORD, ESQ. LIEOT.-COLONEL OP THE SOUTHERN BATTALION OF HAMPSHIRE MILITIA, AND ONE OF THE VERDURERS OF THE FOREST. Vicar's Hill, March 4, 1791. Dear Sir,—When your friendship fixed me in this pleasing retreat within the precincts of New Forest, I had little intention of wandering- farther among its scenes than the bounds of my own parish, or of amusing myself any more with writing on picturesque subjects. But one scene drew me on to another, till at length I had traversed the whole forest. The subject was new to me. I had been much among lakes and mountains, but I had never lived in a forest. I knew little of its scenery. Every thing caught chapter{Section 5my attention ; and a...« less