♦^ Ascot Race Course 



determining factors of a thoroughly good Course are a 

 moist atmosphere and a plentiful rainfall. Our sketch of 

 the geological constitution of Ascot and its neighbourhood 

 affords an explanation of the unusual dryness of the soil, 

 and so marked is this feature of the district that the scarcity 

 of water is a constant domestic trouble, and at times of 

 extraordinary demand, as during the week of the Ascot 



ANOTHEK VIEW FROM THE TOWER : LOOKING NORTH-WEST 



meeting, it often threatens positive inconvenience. The 

 proposal to end all the grievances of the Ascot Course by 

 completely returfing the ground, has an insuperable ob- 

 jection to its adoption — it would necessarily involve, for at 

 least one season, the suspension of the Ascot meeting. 



The most prominent feature in the Ascot landscape is 

 the Clock Tower of the Grand Stand, and from its 



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