WILD EXMOOR. 



than in curves. You see a spur of green 

 hill always much lower than the moors 

 surrounded at the summit by a square hedge 

 (on a wall) like a square camp or forti- 

 fication. This greater square is divided 

 within into lesser squares. Without, fields, 

 more or less square, descend the slope to 

 the bottom of the valley, and each hedge, 

 as just observed, is smooth, round, and of 

 a polished green. 



The road has the solid rock for founda- 

 tion ; the rock sometimes comes to the sur- 

 face, so that there is no dust or crumbled 

 stone, and wheels run on the original hard 

 ground. Approaching the summit the fields 

 inside the beech hedge lose the green of 

 those lower down, the grass is not so long 

 and fresh, and is strewn with rushes. Pre- 

 sently there is heather instead of sward, and 

 the moor is on either hand. The road goes 

 on over the hill, always between beech 



