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The Isle of Wight (1895)

Cornish, C. J. (Charles John), 1858-1906, Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943. Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century, Cartwright, Julia. Raphael in Rome · London : Seeley ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 49

An illustration from The Isle of Wight, 1895, leaf 49
ought not to be, and of what the New Forest would have become had the old Act empowering its inclosure as a State timber farm not been modified. It is an ancient royal forest ; but instead of remaining in its natural con- dition of a wild furze heath and woodland it is now a solid mass of timber,… … hour in Parkhurst Forest. On the other hand it is an economic success. The whole of the land running from Parkhurst to Yarmouth is obviously poor, sour clay and gravel, bad for crops of any kind, and rapidly going out of cultivation, or cultivated in the poorest way. If it had all been planted…

Raphael, 1483-1520 · Etchers · Etching, Dutch

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