The New Forest: its History and its Scenery.
CHAPTER III.
ITS EARLY HISTORY.
Once the New Forest occupied nearly the entire south-west angle of Hampshire, stretching, when at its largest, in the beginning of the reign of Edward I., from the Southampton Water on the east, whose waves, the legend says, reproved the courtiers of Canute, to the Avon, and even, here and there,
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