Excerpt from Gilpin's Forest Scenery
Nearly a century has passed since English readers were first charmed by the perusal of a series of works which, emanating from the pen of a clergy man, and composed in the quietness and seclusion of an English woodland village, were given to the world under the title of Observations relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty.' Their Author was William Gilpin, Prebendary of Salisbury and Vicar of Boldre, in New Forest, near Lym ington;' and the books have been handed down to the present generation, are carefully preserved in select libraries, are prized by book collectors, and are, still, eagerly sought for by those who have heard of Gilpin's fame but have never seen his writings.
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