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beauty and vigorous grace to these Hampshire 

 woodlands formed the depths of the pre-historic 

 sea which rolled over the land. But chalk flints 

 and other marine deposits, which lie on the c hill 

 country' of the Norman hunting-ground, prove 

 also that even these heights were covered, at that 

 era, by the briny waters of the deep. 



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