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THE BRIGHTON ROAD 



sea, for here ooze and crawl the many tributaries of 

 the Mole. The memorable floods of October, 1891, 

 following upon a wet summer and autumnal weeks of 

 rain, swelled the countless arteries of the Mole, and 

 the highways became rushing torrents. Along the nut- 



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brown flood floated the remaining apples from drowned 

 orchards, with trees, bushes, and hurdles. Postmen on 

 their rounds were reduced to wading, and thence to 

 horseback and wheeled conveyances ; and Horley 

 churchyard was flooded. 



