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OLD WEST SURREY 



These black iron-stones, that are close to the surface, 

 have among them a large proportion with one flat edge. 

 These are the ones that are picked out for ' pitching,' as it is 

 called, when the stones of a pavement are laid on edge. The 

 Bargate stone, of which there are many quarries in the 

 Godalming district, is also used in the same way, but this is 



A Paving of Ripple-Marked Stone 



more expensive work, as the stones have to be trimmed to 

 shape. During a century an iron-stone pitched pavement 

 does not show the slightest evidence of wear. 



Near, and just within the Sussex borders, may be seen 

 here and there a pavement of large slabs of stone marked 

 with shallow ripples, just as sea-sand is marked by the lately 

 ebbed tide. Ages ago — millions of years — before the chalk 

 of the downs was formed in the sea-bottom and upheaved, 

 these ripple marks were made under shallow water. There 



