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grove, we turn to the left to a knoll bare of trees, and covered with long 

 grass, with here and there a fiu-ze bush. Here we get the most extensive 

 prospect. Turning east we see Toys Hill, the highest point in that direction 

 of the greensand. This lower greensand range runs parallel to the chalk 

 range its whole distance; it is seen near at home in Keigate Park and 

 Kedhill Common, and in the continuation of that line of hills east and 

 west. For the most part it is lower than the chalk range, but Toys Hill is 

 an exception eastward ; westward, there are long ranges of hills, 

 as Leith Hill and others, considerably higher than the chalk range. 

 Toys Hill overlooks a vei-y extensive tract of co\intry, and the view 

 therefrom is very fine. Its elevation is over 800 feet. Lying a little more 

 east than Toys Hill, on a clear day may be traced a far distant range of 

 hills ; these are the North Downs appearing again. Leaving Keigate their 

 course lies to the N.E. to Chatham, where they are cut down to the sea- 

 level to allow of the escape of the waters of the Medway. Having, as it 

 were, opened the gates for this important river, their course lies to the 

 S.E., and in time they come again into view from Keigate about Hollingbourue 

 Hill, distant about 40 miles; they then gradually fade from sight,, 

 and in place we have in view the neighbourhood of Tunbridge Wells, and its 

 numerous houses, distant about 20 miles. A little to the S. of E. we see by 

 aid of a telescoioe Frant and its church. From the top of Frant Church is 

 an exceedingly beautiful prospect. When the Government survey was 

 being made, the surveyors built a stage on the top of the church, from 

 which place was seen the sea at the Nore, also between Hastings and Rye, 

 and again about Hythe. I myself saw from the church tower the smoke of 

 a steamer as it passed down by the Nore. The high land of Eridge (Lord 

 Abergavenny) and its woods terminates the landscape in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Frant. In connection, however, with the range of hills, 

 which is the central range of the Wealdeu series, we notice from Keigate a 

 conical hill like a cloud rising up from the general level. This is Crowborough, 

 on which in ancient times was a beacon. Its elevation is about 820 feet ; it is 

 the highest point of the Wealden, and ought to be a point of commanding 

 prospect. Notwithstanding its conical appearance as seen from the W., it 

 is not really so. The N. and S. sides are comparatively steep, but E. and 

 W. the land slopes gradually, and in consequence of the trees, the prospect 

 westward is very disappointing. Some gentleman has built a house on the 

 crown of the hill, with a tower attached, from which I apprehend there 

 must be a very commanding view all rotind, and especially westward, for 

 there is no ground so high between it and Leith Hill, in Surrey, and Black 

 Down, in Sussex. A little nearer home, about south of Edenbridge, is 

 another more northern range of the Wealden, parallel to the range of 

 which Crowborough forms a part. There are remarkaWy fine views of the 

 North Downs from these hills. You wUl notice on what appears to be the 

 most westerly point, that is the point nearest home, a clump of trees of 

 triangular shape. This is Dry Hill. On this are the remains of a Roman 

 encampment, of which I heard one evening coming home in the train with 



