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Sussex, and almost the whole of the southern boundary of Surrey. ^ 
the north of the chalk ridge, almost one half of the county is occupie 
by the Tertiary beds of the London basin, undulated considerably, but 
~ the undulations nowhere exceeding four hund 
în height ; clays and gravels predominating on the 
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square miles, much variety both of soil and scenery. There is the 
Surrey portion of London, with a radius of many miles, in which the 
suburban element predominates. ‘There is the winding line of the 
"Thames past Staines and Chertsey, Hampton Court, and Kingston. 
"There are the parks and rich meadows and villas and country resi- 
dences, which crest and cover the low undulations of the country of the 
London clay. There are abundance of barren sandy heaths, where in 
autumn the purple of the heather mingles with the golden glow of the 
autumnal furze. There are the chalk downs, with escarpments of 
much abruptness, the ridge commanding extensive prospects far away 
both to south and north. ‘There is the Wealden valley of Holmesdale, 
well-watered and finely varied with wood and arable and pasture. 
‘There are hop-gardens, and at least one extensive natural thicket of 
‘Box-bushes ; and there is a range of steep barren treeless heathery 
hills, of which the culminating points fall very little short of a thousand 
“feet in altitude. The county, as a whole, in outline, is nearest a quad- 
Tangle of any regular shape. The chalk ridge runs through the centre 
from east to west, a mere ridge, not more than half a mile in breadth, 
“over Godalming and Guildford, but growing gradually to a width of 
eight or nine miles in the east of the county, and prolonged through 
Kent to the seacoast at Dover. This is the range that is known by 
“the name of the North Downs. South of it the beds, with the excep- 
- tion of the alluvium of the river-margins, are all older than the chalk. 
‘The Upper Greensand forms the range of steep heathery hills, of which 
“we have just spoken, in the south-west of the county, on the south side 
“of the valley of the Wey. The highest points are Hind Head, near 
Famham, in the extreme south-west, which exceeds 900 feet, and Leith 
Hill, near Dorking, which is about midway between the eastern and 
Western borders of the county, and reaches 993 feet. Looking from 
the North Downs over Reigate due south to the South Downs over 
Brighton, the view extends across the fertile, partly sandy, partly 
clayey valley of the Weald, which occupies portions of Kent n. 
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