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ence. Allowing for all that, 1 should take a lot 

 of persuading that a better mover than the Crow- 

 catcher could be made. You see that if he ran 

 between the stones from the fifty-eighth on the 

 flat going nearly opposite the Old Cambridge- 

 shire stand to the one we have been talking 

 about, he must finish up a steep hill — a hard job 

 at the end of a fast mile. My belief is that he 

 was set to cover a measured mile finishing at the 

 Rooms, and I am almost certain that I am 

 right. 



In July a very delightful resort is the Heath, 

 no matter where you go — on the Cambridge or 

 Bury or Thetford side, up along by the Cheveley 

 road, or across the Moulton, away to Water 

 Hall, or getting alongside Chippenham Park. 

 For its area the great plain on the Race side, 

 and so far as it is bounded by the Ditch, has 

 probably fewer components in its turf than any 

 other grass land, barring seeds. One sort of 

 grass predominates and dominates, save for 

 burnet, which I want to see tried on its own for 

 making gallops. Wild flowers there are, but not 

 in profusion, on the town hand of the July 

 course. Over the way there they are far more 

 plentiful, so are the sweet scenty herbs that 

 make Southern downs so fragrant and healthy. 

 Now, if you take a square foot of Southdown 

 turf and divide it up, planting its members, you 

 get a surprising catalogue of variorum growth, 

 not forgetting crops of samples from seeds lying 

 dormant and doomed to' be starved should they 

 germinate in their original stores. I would like 

 to bet that a turf cut ofT Epsom's or Lewes's, 

 Goodwood's or Brighton's training tracks would 

 furnish manifold more varieties of vegetation 



