As it was important that we should be away again before the tide fell we pulled on, that we might land close to Beaulieu itself.  The scenery was picturesque in the extreme, the trees in many places coming down to the water's edge, into which they dipped their long hanging boughs.  About six miles off, the artist Gilpin had the living of Boldre, and here he often came to sketch views of woodland and river scenery.  We landed near the bridge, and walked on to see Beaulieu Abbey.  Passing through a gateway we observed the massive walls, which exist here and there almost entire, in some places mantled with ivy, and at one time enclosing an area of sixteen acres or more.