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prospect of fertility suggestive of agricultural 

 industry the yellow stubble of cornfields, green 

 meadows, trees thickly clustering in places 

 and corn ricks, all blended and mingled into one 

 attractive picture, which is spread out in all its 

 largeness before the eye. The tree heads are 

 mellow with autumnal colouring Oaks on the 

 hill where we stand having the golden tinge 

 which betokens the approaching fall. A murmur 

 of water reaches us from the point, away below, at 

 which the Avon flows over its weir. Following 

 the direction of the sound the eye takes in a 

 prospect of orchard and fruit garden on the slope 

 of the hillside ; then, continuing the same line of 

 vision, one rapid glance will include the whole of 

 the smiling valley from where the town, at the 

 foot of the declivity, nestles in its lowest part, 

 away to the dark line of hills that crown the far 

 uplands. 



Regaining the road we ascend to the top of the 

 hill, and at a cross road a little further on take a 

 turning to the left in a north-easterly direction, 

 between leafy hedgebanks where Oak, Holly, 

 Hazel and Hawthorn are intermingled with Brake, 



