BEEKSHIEE. 



159 



than Reading biscuits, for they are eaten everywhere, from Alaska to jN'ew 

 Zealand, and from Greenland to the Cape of Good Hope. Reading also exports 

 seeds for flowers, and has an iron foundry. 



Below the " Town of Biscuits " the Loddon, born in the Xorth Downs, not 

 far from Basingstoke, mingles its water with that of the Thames. The country 



Fig. 87. — WiNPSoR. 

 Scale 1 : 55,000. 



O- 38' 



0'34.' 



1 Mile. 



beyond that river is to a great extent covered with woods. Wokinghnm, formerly 

 known as Oakingham, lies on the verge of the ancient royal forest, and up to 

 1821 w^as noted for bull- baiting. Near it are Wellington College, for the educa- 

 tion of officers' sons, and the Royal Military College of Sandhurst, both on the 

 road to the camp of Aldershot (see p. 141). 



