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Ashley Lodge, and so through Pitt's Wood, and between the 

 high, bare, half mountainous hills of Chilly and Blissford, 

 coming out upon the turnpike-road near Blissford Gate ; or to 

 follow the side of the Amherwood stream towards some scattered 

 houses, called Ogdens. 



Here we leave the Forest, and its moors and woods, and, 

 mounting Goreley Hill, see below us the church of Fording- 

 bridge, and the Avon winding among its meadows. To the 

 south Hengistbury Head lifts itself up in the distant horizon ; 

 and beyond it again, but more to the west, stretches the blue 

 line of the Portland Hills. To the north swell the rounded 

 forms of the Wiltshire downs, and the spire of Salisbury 

 starts out from the midst, and behind it towers the mound 

 of Old Sarum. 



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