This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... the new forest1 by Wlllingham F. rawnsley, M.A. (O part of Hampshire is more interesting than the New Forest, full of curious, if not unique, customs, having a somewhat remarkable caste of inhabitants, and abounding, as the whole district does, in scenes of natural beauty, with a colouring at all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... the new forest1 by Wlllingham F. rawnsley, M.A. (O part of Hampshire is more interesting than the New Forest, full of curious, if not unique, customs, having a somewhat remarkable caste of inhabitants, and abounding, as the whole district does, in scenes of natural beauty, with a colouring at all times of the year richer than that of any other district in England. It is free and open to all comers, who may roam at will over the whole of what is practically an enormous park, without fear of trespass; with opportunities, geological, botanical, and entomological, which are quite exceptional, and a chance of seeing in their wild state a fair number of birds, and more different kinds of four-footed animals than any other open district in England can show. The term New Forest, applied to this district as early as the reign of William I., shows that England was a land of forests existing before the Conquest. All over Hampshire, both on the Tertiaries and up to, if not on, the chalk Downs, there was one continuous stretch of forest, beech growing on the chalk, oak on the clay, and furze and heath on the sand. Indeed, the greater part of England was, not technically but practically, forest, and tenanted by herds of swine. These animals in early times were the universal food of our ancestors, beef being little used, and mutton still less, if at all; so it is obvious that swine would be kept wherever there was food for them. Hence the importance of woodlands for " pannage" was recognized by the Saxons, and penalties were imposed for the destruction of the trees, the value of a tree being estimated, not by the amount of timber it contained, but by the number of swine it would feed. In later times, the woods were used for hunting grounds. These were...
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