26 THE GALLOWS. 



Crossing the Wye, and passing through 

 Godalming, with the woody heights of Bus- 

 bridge on the left then the seat of Mr. Hare 

 Townsend, the friend and companion of the 

 great Charles Fox the road opens on a wide, 

 extensive heath, with a continuous rise. 

 Leaving Pepper Harrow, the seat of Lord 

 Middleton, on the right, it winds round a 

 deep dell, known as the Devil's Punch- 

 Bowl, till it reaches the summit, called 

 the Hind's Head: on the top of which stood 

 another of those "hanging woods" fre- 

 quent in the latter part of the eighteenth 

 century, and not totally lost sight of 

 till long after the commencement of the 

 nineteenth this was a tripartite erection 

 and the names of the parties and their crime 

 are recorded on a stone still standing by the 

 side of the bowl, down which they dragged 

 their victim. Looking down the deep 

 declivity that forms the side of this spacious 

 circular ravine, here and there you might 

 see peasant boys gathering berries, and a 



