[179]Scott used to admire the _Red King_; but his praise must have been far more the result of friendship than of unbiassed criticism. The following lines, from Rose’s MS. poem of “Gundimore” (quoted in Lockhart’s _Life of Scott_, p. 145, foot-note), are interesting from their subject, and at the conclusion, though the idea is borrowed, are really fine:— “Here Walter Scott has wooed the Northern Muse, Here he with me has joyed to walk or cruize; And hence has pricked through Ytene’s holt, where we Have called to mind how under greenwood tree, Pierced by the partner of his ‘woodland craft,’ King Rufus fell by Tiril’s random shaft. Hence have we ranged by Keltic camps and barrows, Or climbed the expectant bark, to thread the Narrows Of Hurst, bound westward to the gloomy bower Where Charles was prisoned in yon island tower. * * * * * * * Here, witched from summer sea and softer reign, Foscolo courted Muse of milder strain. On these ribbed sands was Coleridge pleased to pace Whilst ebbing seas have hummed a rolling base To his rapt talk.” [180]_Antiquities_, vol. ii., where there is a sketch of the Grange as it was in 1777. [181]For the geology of High Cliff, Barton, and Hordle Cliffs, see chapter xx. There are not many fossils in either the grey sand or the green clay before you reach the “bunny.” Plenty, however, may be found in the top part of the bed immediately above, known as the “High Cliff Beds,” and which rise from the shore about a quarter of a mile to the east of the stream. [182]Chewton is not mentioned in _Domesday_. Beckley (Beceslei), which is close by, where there was a mill which paid thirty pence, had a quarter of its land taken into the Forest; whilst Baishley (Bichelei) suffered in the same proportion. Fernhill lost two-thirds of its worst land, and Milton (Mildeltune) half a hyde and its woods, which fed forty hogs, by which its rental was reduced to one-half. [183]At this point the Marine Beds end, and the Brackish-Water series crop up; and then, lastly, the true Fresh-Water shells commence—the Paludinæ and Limnææ, with scales of fish, and plates of chelonians, and bones of palæotheres, and teeth of dichodons. See, further, chapter xx. [184]See Lappenberg’s _England under the Anglo-Norman Kings_. Ed. Thorpe, p. 89. [185]Yarranton, in that strange but clever work, _England’s Improvement by Land and Sea_ (Ed. 1677, pp. 43-63), dwells at length on the quantity of iron-stone along the coast, and the advantage of the New Forest for making charcoal to smelt the metal. He proposed to build two forges and two furnaces for casting guns, near Ringwood, where the ore was to be brought up the Avon. [186]