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OLD WEST SURREY 



was taken, on one side of the old one and parallel to it, 

 and so on perhaps three or four times. There are many 

 places about the heaths and woods where evidences of 

 this remain — always on sloping ground. 



Some four miles from my home one such set of old 



By the Heath Ponds 



pack-horse tracks passes near a remarkable smuggler's lair 

 and hiding-place. It lies off the track, well concealed in 

 a wood, in a private property. It is a region of caves, 

 evidently made by human hands, though probably begun 

 by foxes, in the sandy soil just south of the chalk ridge. 



