Description: | Etching by Heywood Sumner in the Artist's edition (1883) of John R Wise, 'The New Forest: its history and scenery', p. 120. According to John Wise (p. 120) "the whole river is here full of beauty, winding, scarce knowing where, among the flat meadows, one stream flowing one way, and one another, and then all suddenly uniting, coming up with their joined force against the steep banks, dark in the shade of the trees; and, being repulsed, flowing away again into the meadows, white with flocks of swans, and fenced in by green hedges of rushes and yellow flags." |