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Lost’ he said to his friend, ‘‘Thou hast said much here of ‘Paradise 
Lust,’ but what hast thou to say of ‘Paradise Begained ’ ? ” and 
that on Milton showing him the later poem he said : “ This is 
owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put 
at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.” 
The cottage was purchased as the village’s Jubilee Memorial of 
Queen Victoria, Her Majesty contributing towards the cost, and in 
a room are relics of Milton and old editions of his works. 
The return journey was made by Chorley Wood and Loud water 
House, still in heavy rain, which ceased only when all had arrived 
home. 
The rainfall this day in the district visited must have exceeded 
half an inch. In Herts it reached 0’60 in. at Aldenham House and 
Eastbury, but it was doubtless rather greater in Bucks, and nearly 
all fell in the afternoon upon our cycling party, more than half of 
whom were ladies. 
Field Meeting, 23hd May, 1903. 
THE DUNSTABLE DOWNS. 
This meeting, arranged for cyclists only, was held in conjunction 
with the Geologists’ Association, Mr. Hopkinson acting as Director 
for both the County and the London Society. 
Assembling at Tring Station at 3 o’clock, the party proceeded to 
the picturesque village of Aidbury, which is situated in a pretty 
valley cut out of the Chalk, after its escarpment commences, by 
a stream no longer flowing. A fine old timbered house, and the 
stocks and whipping-post still standing by the side of the village 
pond, attracted attention; and it was noticed that the hill on the 
right, where the escarpment commences, is much steeper and 
rather higher than that on the left, beyond which it ends. The 
Chalk Bock has been cut through, cropping out near the middle 
of Moneybury hillside on the right and reappearing near the top 
of Aidbury Owers on the left. 
Beyond Aidbury the road rises considerably, leaving the valley 
to cross a spur of Pitstone Hill, where it passes over the lower 
portion of the escarpment, the run down to the plain beyond being 
very steep. Approaching Ivinghoe, a view of the church invited 
a closer inspection, and most of the party deviated from the direct 
route in order to visit it, others examining a pit in the Lower Chalk, 
in which they waited for the archseologically-diverted members. 
Ivinghoe Beacon was then ascended. The summit is nearly 
800 feet above sea-level and 200 feet above the road (the Icknield 
Way), where the bicycles were left. The view from it is very fine, 
and to-day it was unusually clear. AVhen all had assembled the 
Director gave an explanation of its geological features. It embraced, 
he said, the whole of the Cretaceous rocks present on the northern 
margin of the London Basin except the higher beds of the Upper 
Chalk. They were standing on or just above the Melbourne Bock, 
