REIGATE HILL 



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the declivity is so steep and abrupt that the spectator 

 cannot help being struck with terror, though softened 

 by admiration. The Sublime and the Beautiful are 

 here perfectly united ; imagination is fully exercised, 

 and the mind delighted." 



How would this person have described the Alps ? 



A milestone just short of this drop — one of a series 

 starting at Sutton Downs and dealing in fractions of 

 miles — says, very curtly : " London 19, Sutton 8, 

 Brighton 32f, Reigate If." 



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THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE, REIGATE HILL. 



The suspension bridge, carried overhead, spanning 

 the cutting made through the crest of the hill, is 

 known to the rustics — who will always invent simple 

 English words of one syllable, whenever possible, to 

 take the place of difficult three-syllabled words of 

 Latin extraction — as the " Chain Pier." It does not, 

 as almost invariably is the case with these bridges, 

 connect two portions of an estate severed by the cutting, 



