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green valleys beneath, and of the dark moors 

 above. 



At a distance the enclosed fields seem 

 surrounded with hedges, not merely cropped, 

 but smoothed and polished, so rounded 

 and regular do they appear. It is the 

 natural tendency of beech to grow to a 

 regular level, so that looking down upon it 

 it appears cropped. I suppose the square 

 shape of most of the fields is caused by the 

 walls ; walls are more easily built in straight 

 lines than in curves. You sec a spur of 

 creen hill — always much lower than the 

 moors — surrounded at the summit by a 

 square hedge (on a wall) like a square cam]) 

 or fortification. 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 lias the solid rock for founda- 

 tion ; the rock sometimes comes to the 



