How Far are You Going?-A Peep at Southampton Docks-Approach to the New Forest-From Lyndhurst-road to Rufus' Stone-Sylvan Features-Glades and Solitude-Herds of Horses-Seasonal HogsMinstead-Aberrant Compass-View from the Hill-Rufus' StoneStony Cross-Holiday Quarters-Ringwood-Poole.
"How far might you be going?" asked the coastguard, as we stood chatting on the top of the cliff that overlooks Lulworth Cove, on a sunshiny afternoon at the beginning of July, 1854.
"As far towards America as a man can go on foot," was my answer.
The man mused for a while, and then rejoined"But you can't go further than the Land's End!" Had he mused a little longer he would perhaps have kept his rejoinder to himself.