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accompaniment of the guard's horn, relentlessly pro- 

 claiming imminent departure. And from Ripley it is a 

 run of six miles into Guildford, which is twenty-nine 

 miles seven furlongs from the Stone's End in the Borough, 

 the capital of Surrey, a most picturesque town, and a 



Fireplace in Abbot's Hospital. 



good place to dine at after rambling about lost on a 

 Common, as Mr. Pepys in 1668 found. 



The inns of Guildford were in the coaching days the 

 Crown and the White Hart, when the constant throb of 

 traffic on the direct Portsmouth Road must have kept the 

 now sleep}- old place from ever even nodding ; but there 

 is not much throb of traffic about the High Street now ; 

 and Guildford sleeps on its past according to the present 



