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and fields beautifuUy green once more gladdened the sight. Passing the young 

 Turkish oaks with their pretty foliage— rejoicing in this splendid summer as 

 they seemed to do— the fine upright English oaks, so valuable for timber— 

 the tall Elms of Henley Hall were reached. Here crossing the Lutwyche— 

 noted for its fishing— the ascent began, and soon called for the extra assistance 

 of a couple of horses to draw up the carnages as they successively arrived. 

 The mining district was soon reached with its basalt-built cottages becoming more 

 and more numerous as the brow of the hill was gained. Here the visitors 

 left the carriages and seemed by instinct to make for that noted land-mark, 

 •'the forked stick." It was not the right way however. Mr. Cocking and the 

 leaders bore to the left over a rough common, dry and arid as the fashion 

 of the year is, and took the direct road to the summit across those mysterious 

 lines of stone which puzzle antiquaries to explain. The ascent would have 

 been remarkably easy if the turf had not been so dry and slippery, nor was it 

 long,.for in about a mile and a half the lecture point, above the Giant's Chair, 

 was reached. The wind by this time had freshened to a point that rendered 

 elastic fastenings for hats highly valuable. Taking the sheltered side of the 

 summit, lying and seated in a close group, whose picturesque effect was 

 heightened, here by a young lady on a white pony, and there by a docile chestnut 

 standing amongst the rocks on the steep hiU side, as quietly as if he too was 

 deeply interested in the excellent "Address on the Geology of the District," 

 which was here given by the Kev. J. D. La Touche, with a clear, distinct 

 enunciation which enabled every one to hear it plainly. 



