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continue to the left or eastwards up the cartway and over the 
brow of the hill, until we come to a cottage surrounded by a high 
hedge. Here we find the boundary hedge of the common, with 
a gate leading into a field much overgrown with heath, ling, 
wild thyme, and many other favourite food-plants for various 
orders of insects. This is a very likely patch of ground, much 
sheltered by tall hedges of beech and oak. Here we may pause 
a little, and beat over this growth with certainty of getting 
something worth boxing. Following the cartway by the west 
side of the hedge, we now work south-westward until we come 
to a lane to the left. This lane has a wood to the right hand, 
and a very fine old beech hedge on the left. We shall find 
beating or mothing well repay us in this old lane. In the oak 
wood on the right are some fine patches of foxglove and other 
plants in the clearings. Here were found, by the visitors on the 
17th July, plenty of larve of Hupithecia pulchellata and other 
things. We will follow the lane down to the end of the wood, 
when we come to a gate at the right, over which may be 
obtained a very fine view of the open country lying between us 
and the South Downs which loom up in the distance. To our 
left we see Tunbridge Wells, and over to the right, some eight 
or ten miles away, is Kast Grinstead, with Tilgate Forest 
beyond to the westward. 
We now return up the lane back to the common, for this 
has been a slight digression from our walk. Before us are 
several paths leading in various directions from this point, so 
we take the second to the left. This will take us quickly down 
a rather steep hill into the main road, which we left by the 
schoolhouse. Where this path joins the road are one or two 
cottages, and we must now decide whether to extend our walk 
southwards or to make our way back to Westerham through the 
woods. 
If we take the southern road we shall find it very well worth 
exploring towards Crockham Hill. Here are old fir-woods, with 
plenty of heather, &c., and some interesting scenery. This will 
add very considerably to our walk, and is perhaps better taken 
on a day of its own. We will therefore turn northwards up the 
road as though returning to Westerham. On our left is a very 
large wood of mixed trees; this is the Tower Wood, so called 
from a ruin about its centre, said to be of a hunting-lodge or 
